 | | | rh-l] RE: Large number of files in single directory | rh-l] RE: Large number of files in single directory 2005-05-27 - By R P Herrold
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On Fri, 27 May 2005, Mike Wooding wrote:
>
> --- "Burke, Thomas G." <tg.burke@(protected)> wrote:
>> I delete them by character... e.g. rm -rf *1.tmp, rm -rf *2.tmp, and
>> so on. Don't know of any other way to do it. - although I wrote a
>> little C program once to handle it for me.
>
> It's a shell limitation. There's a utility,
> "xargs" that will help work around this.
>
> man xargs
or, in the correct directory:
find -type f -a -exec rm {} \;
will work
- Russ Herrold
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