On Tue, 20 Dec 2005, CodeHeads wrote: > Chasecreek Systemhouse wrote: > >>OR rm -fr /dir/dir-delete-me > > > > > > That won't work on directories that have tens of thousands of files. > > -- > > WC -Sx- Jones | http://ccsh.us/ | Open Source Consulting > > That is weird, it works for me. :) i suspect some folks are thoroughly confused with the historical limit on how long a command, after globbing, can *expand* to. if you just type something like: $ rm -rf mydir there's no globbing so there's no problem. if, OTOH, you're in a horrifically-populated directory, then typing: $ rm * *might*, with some earlier shells, cause an error to the effect of "Arg list too long" just because of the wildcard expansion. this has *nothing* to do with the first example above, which should work just fine. rday
