Jussi Hirvi wrote: >> 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. This issue is in Fedora, Ubuntu, CentOS, RHEL, (put any other linux version you want here). When you get too many files in a directory, you will receive this error. The same SOURCE code is compiled regardless of the "Distro". As you have seen. there are many solutions to this problem ... HOWEVER, picking a new distro is not one of them Most people never hit this limitation, but it is certainly possible and there in all versions of Linux. Thanks, Johnny Hughes -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 251 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature Url : http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20081024/5c97dcda/signature.bin