Just out of curiousity, why is it a problem to delete a large number of files? What is 'rm' doing? This sort of sounds like a bug in rm -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike Wooding Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 1:44 PM To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: Re: Deleting LARGE number of files You can remove the directory recursively, or be more precise with a combination of find and xargs. The basic tool is xargs. See the man page. --- 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. ===== He who laughs last thinks slowest. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover -- 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
