>> piping ls to xargs should do the trick. man xargs for details. >Ok, thanks for ideas, Laurent and Lawrence.
>A strange limitation in ls and rm, though. My friend said he hasn't seen >that in Fedora. Are you sure you are comparing apples to apples? There is nothing particularly Centos specific about this problem. I've seen it on a variety of *NIX systems over the years, though I presume some distributions or UNIX variants may have upped the buffer size. Here is an interesting blog post which illustrates how you can get into this kind trouble: http://stevenroddis.com/2006/10/07/binrm-argument-list-too-long/index.html -geoff _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
