[LUAU] How do you delete over 500,000 files in a directory
Jim Thompson
jim at netgate.com
Thu Nov 3 17:19:29 PST 2005
Jim Thompson wrote:
> Hawaii Linux Institute wrote:
>
>> ne at a time, & I am sure everyone here knows how to do this. For
>> example:
>>
>> for i in m*; do rm m*; done
>
> still requires bash to glob all 500,000 files. Fails for the same
> reaons.
note my error here. Bash is OK globbing 500,000 files (twice!), but the
(exec of) '/bin/rm' will fail with E2BIG.
jim
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