From: ameet p <ameetissatan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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To: Chris <redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,General Red Hat Linux discussion list <redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Deleting LARGE number of files
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 16:48:25 +1000 (EST)
rm -r and directory name.
Chris <redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Okay, newbie question - and I can't find the answer on
Google... :-|
How can you delete the contents of a directory that has a HUGE number of files? By huge I mean when "rm -f *" complains with "too many items" error message. I don't care what's in there, I just want to wipe it all.
Thanks,
Chris
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