rm -f *
This failed with a "too many arguments" error. The root-cause of this seems to be a little involved, but the simple one-line workaround is:
find ./ -name '*' -print0 | xargs -0 rm
06 January 2010
rm - too many arguments
I was trying to delete about 55,000 files in an Ubuntu directory the other day. Something along the lines of:
This failed with a "too many arguments" error. The root-cause of this seems to be a little involved, but the simple one-line workaround is:
This failed with a "too many arguments" error. The root-cause of this seems to be a little involved, but the simple one-line workaround is:
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2 comments:
why not
find . -name "*" -exec rm -f {} \;
Not sure if that would also work or not. The solution I posted is one I found which accounted for spaces in the file names and I used this successfully.
I'm not a Linux guru. There may be many ways to do it. I'll leave it for others to provide more detailed and informative comments.
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