Jussi Hirvi wrote: > Lawrence Guirre (lawrence.guirre@xxxxxxxxx) kirjoitteli (17.10.2008 12:55): > > piping ls to xargs should do the trick. man xargs for details. > > Ok, thanks for ideas, Laurent and Lawrence. > > A strange limitation in ls and rm, though. My friend said he hasn't seen > that in Fedora. Than he doesn't have as many files in the directory as you have: #define ARG_MAX 131072 /* # bytes of args + environ for exec() */ That's from /usr/include/linux/limits.h. Also see <http://partmaps.org/era/unix/arg-max.html> Ralph
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