[Peter Samuelson] > Note also, if you _are_ worried about command line length limits, it's > easy to buy yourself a lot more breathing room: > > cd subversion/tests/cmdline/svn-test-work; rm -fr *
Of course I meant && in place of ; there. Much safer in case the dir itself may or may not exist. > the find | xargs pattern itself was made somewhat obsolete by the > find...-exec...+, which I believe is in POSIX. While I don't have any older systems to hand, I did just now verify that find...-exec...+ works on a 5-year-old Solaris 10 box. (Hmmm, I wonder if AIX 4.3 would still boot on my old RS/6000....)