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Re: [SLL] Too many args for rm *.in
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couple of alternate ways:
find . -name "*.in" -exec rm -f {} \;
find . -name "*.in" -print | xargs rm -f
On Tue, 1 Jun 1999 tburba@GLCORPIS01.usvision.com wrote:
> Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 17:19:12 -0400
> From: tburba@GLCORPIS01.usvision.com
> To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net, linux-list@ssc.com
> Subject: [SLL] Too many args for rm *.in
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> 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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