OT - removing 25,000 files - END

the most clean and cool solution of all (asterix & obelix)

ls | xargs -n 20 rm

thanks all

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> From: Yosi Greenfield[SMTP:yosi_at_comhill.com]
> Reply To: ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com
> Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 4:05 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: Re: OT - removing 25000 files !!
>
> From an old Readers Digest submission that's stuck in my brain forever:
>
> Little Mary donned her skates
> Upon the ice to frisk.
> Oh what a silly girl was she
> Her little *
>
>
>
> alex.apostolopoulos_at_mindmatics.de wrote:
>
> > > Asterix is resolved by shell? How about Obelix?
> >
> > How about you ?
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 8:51 AM
> > > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi
> > > no wildcard command will work cause the asterix is resolved by the
> executing
> > > shell (limit to a certain buffersize) so you have to use eg.:
> > >
> > > find <name of dir> -exec rm -f {} \;
> > >
> > > cheers alex
> > >
> > >
> > > > How about:
> > > >
> > > > for file in *
> > > > do
> > > > /usr/bin/rm -f $file
> > > > done
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > List, how can i remove 25,000 files from a unix directory ??
> > > > > if i try rm -f * it returns
> > > > > "ksh: /usr/bin/rm: 0403-027 The parameter list is too long"
> > > > >
> > > > > if i give wild card it would take too long....
> > > > > it's not a separate file system so i cannot unmount and remove the
> FS.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > TIA
> > > > >
> > > > > rahul
> > > > >
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> Yosi
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