tag 28082 notabug close 28082 stop On 13/08/17 14:35, Jonny Grant wrote: > Hello > > Can this be resolved please? Seems a shame in 2017 on a machine with > 16GB of ram I suffer this. Each filename is around 40 bytes. > > Roughly 60,000 files > > So total strings around 2.4 MBytes. Quite a small limit. > > $rm jonny*.* > bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long
The standard mechanism to scale this is to use xargs, something like: find . -maxdepth 1 -name 'jonny*.*' -print0 | xargs -r0 rm In any case this is not a limitation imposed by rm. cheers, Pádraig.
