On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 05:16:38PM -0400, Marshall Dudley said: > /tmp/clamav-ec6d3e4e4e253eaf directory and filled it up. 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.
On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 10:19:27PM -0700, Dennis Peterson said: > Try: > rm *[a-m];rm *[n-z];rm *[0-9] On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 11:09:20AM +0100, G.W. Haywood said: > man xargs On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 08:10:08AM -0700, Ken Sandberg said: > Try "ls | xargs rm" On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 11:29:55AM -0400, David F. Skoll said: > find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 rm How many unix admins does it take to not notice that rm has a recursive option? -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | Welcome to Utah. If you think our | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | liquor laws are funny, you should see | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | our underwear! | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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