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/bin/rm: Argument list too long

Started by HRamesh, October 16, 2008, 10:22:11 PM

HRamesh

Hi,

I am getting /bin/rm: Argument list too long error while deleting files using below command:

rm -rf somenane*

Any help would be appreciated.

Ramesh

Kailash

It seems that the total number of files are high. You can check it using the following command:

ls -l | wc -l

Try to delete in a batch (500/1000 files) at a time.

Kailash

jantillon

#2
If you are absolutely sure that you want to remove everything in the directory use xargs.  

find . -name '*' | xargs rm

Or add a filestring to the wildcard

hmb-willem

You can also remove the files in alphabets order.