Jeff Vian wrote:
On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 15:31 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Tuesday 20 December 2005 13:20, Chasecreek Systemhouse wrote:
OR rm -fr /dir/dir-delete-me
That won't work on directories that have tens of thousands of files.
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Oh? That must mean that all those kernel src dir leftovers I've
cleaned over the years are still around then. But I can't find them.
The pony trick is to use, as root, rm -fR name-of-directory
FWIW I have seen several times the failure of a command when using
globbing to create the filelist. If the list of files is large enough
(in the tens or maybe even hundreds of thousands) the shell hits a limit
where it cannot process the list.
[snip]
This can happen, yes. But in this particular context, it is irrelevant.
Globbing is not an issue with
$ rm -fr /some/directory/path
The shell passes just three arguments to rm, to wit:
"rm"
"-fr"
"/some/directory/path"
And *rm* traverses the directory, not the shell.
Mike
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