J Wunsch wrote:
> 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.
Incidently, "find /home/gary/public_html/mrtg/david -delete" would have
worked as well, and would not have deleted the top directory.
Cheers,
-Peter
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