Doug Dalton: rm * results in /bin/rm: Argument list too long.

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rm * results in /bin/rm: Argument list too long.

This will fix this problem:

find . -name '*' | xargs rm

Posted by Doug on September 28, 2006 3:05 PM | Permalink

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rm * results in /bin/rm: Argument list too long.

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