On Tuesday, April 27, 2004 10:12 AM, Ryan Golhar is quoted as saying:
> I encountered the same issue and had to delete groups of files,
> something like rm a*, then rm b*.
>
>
> Ryan
>
>
> 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
>
The other option is a find command as such:
#find /directory/path -name * -exec rm -f {} \;
You shouldn't have any problem with the number of files using this method.
Brad Sites, RHCE
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