Alexander Langer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> It's xargs job to workaround that:
> 
> ls | xargs rm -rf 

rm -rf /home/gary/public_html/mrtg/david

should have worked as well.  It also removes the directory itself,
yes, but since it's then rm(1) that does the directory handling,
there's no longer a limitation in the arg list that applies.

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