Eric Leung on Tue, 1 Jun 1999 18:02:54 -0400 (EDT)


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Re: [SLL] Too many args for rm *.in


try:

    ls *.in | xargs rm

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On Tue, 1 Jun 1999 tburba@GLCORPIS01.usvision.com wrote:

> rm *.in fails with the error "too many arguments" (there is 15000 files).
> How do I use it with more arguments? (xargs man page makes no sense at all)
> TIA

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