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Published: Jul 26 2008 / 18:16

So, you’ve filled up a directory with so many files that executing a rm -f * tells you Argument list too long. Now what? You can run this to remove the files in a directory too full to use rm -f *…
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bloid replied ago:

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find . -exec rm -r {} \;

at a guess...?

*wanders off to read article*

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bloid replied ago:

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Heh... close ;)

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