Re: Too many args for rm *.in

[Andrew Libby <alibby@voicenet.com>]

Don't forget about xargs:

cd /dir/w/many/files
ls | xargs rm

xargs is good stuff.

Andy

On Tue, Jun 01, 1999 at 09:31:23PM +0000, ray beckler wrote:
> 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
> 
> If there's nothing in the directory you want to keep, just go up one level and
> do rm -rf <dirname>.
> 
> BE CAREFUL!  "rm -rf"  will remove everything in the directory you name and
> below it, no questions asked.  So just make sure you're in the right place
> when you issue the command and don't use wildcards.  I did that once, "rm -rf
> ray*", left out the space between ray and * --- nasty, very nasty.
> 
> Otherwise you can do a series of rm a*, rm b* or whatever.  I'm sure there's
> other tricks but I don't remember.
> 
> 
> ray
> 
> 
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