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Re: Too many files for: rm *.txt ??
- To: Axel Kowald <axel at itb dot biologie dot hu-berlin dot de>
- Subject: Re: Too many files for: rm *.txt ??
- From: Andrew Markebo <flognat at flognat dot myip dot org>
- Date: 28 May 2001 12:50:04 +0200
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- References: <3B122854.43A5EBA8@itb.biologie.hu-berlin.de>
This is a problem due to a 'restriction' of your shell.. Solution.. do
something like 'find . -name "*.txt" | xargs rm ' which splits the
lists and runs many rm's..
/Andy
/ Axel Kowald <axel@itb.biologie.hu-berlin.de> wrote:
| Hello,
|
| I'm using tcsh (6.10) under cygwin 1.1.8 and everything runs nicely.
| However, when I try to delete >5500 files using rm *.txt I get
| "/usr/bin/rm: Invalid argument". It seems that the shell or rm can't
| handle so many files.
|
| Is this a known problem and what can I do about it ?
|
| Many thanks,
|
| Axel
|
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