Re: not enough permissions to empty trash

To: THUFIR HAWAT <hawat.thufir@xxxxxxxxx>, For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: not enough permissions to empty trash
From: Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 15:34:09 +0530
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Hi

...

[root@localhost .Trash]# rm * -rf
bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long
[root@localhost .Trash]#

ouch, heh.

http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#Argument-list-too-long

regards
Rahul

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