On 08/13/2017 11:27 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: >> $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.
In fact, we have a FAQ about it: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#Argument-list-too-long -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org
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