Re: Too many args for rm *.in

[Kyle Burton <mortis@voicenet.com>]

This might work:

################################################################################
#!/usr/bin/perl

opendir DIR, "/foo/bar/";

while( defined($file=<DIR>) ) {
  `rm $file` if $file =~ /\.in$/;
}
################################################################################

should process the files 1 at a time...it'll be slower than using rm, but it
should work.



k

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

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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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