On Friday 10 August 2007 02:16 pm, Marshall Dudley wrote:
>...
>To make 
> matters worse, I had a difficult time deleting them to get the system
> back up because when I tried to do a "rm *" it reported that the file
> list was too long, so I had to delete them a few at a time.

Try "ls | xargs rm" to get around the list being too long. You can use 
whatever arguments you want with rm or ls, but the output of ls need to be 
just file names for rm.

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       Ken Sandberg.

California Lutheran University
Information Systems and Services
60 West Olsen Road
Thousand Oaks, CA 91360
805-493-3431
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