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. -- Ken Sandberg. California Lutheran University Information Systems and Services 60 West Olsen Road Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 805-493-3431 _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html