I encountered the same issue and had to delete groups of files, something like rm a*, then rm b*. Ryan -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chris Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 2:29 AM To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Deleting LARGE number of files 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 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
