Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <42E67108.3050601@alltel.net> Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 12:21:12 -0500 From: Ken Dibble User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin Subject: Re: rm filename length problem References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Dave Korn wrote: >----Original Message---- > > >>From: Ken Dibble >>Sent: 26 July 2005 17:16 >> >> > > > >>I'm trying to script a cleanup of some directories prior to backup. >> >>I'm having a heck of a time with some long filenames. >> >> > > 'doze and *nix both have path length limitations. Sometimes path >translation can push things over the limit. > > > >>$ rm -Rf * >>rm: cannot remove >> >> >> >`450JUVMP/Type=click&FlightID=1991987&AdID=1986689&TargetID=2006165&Segments >=2001081,2001256,2001550,2001551,2001761,2001784,2001916,2002090,2002592,200 >3057,20030[1]': > > >>File name too long >>rm: cannot remove directory `450JUVMP': Directory not empty >> >> > > Shorten some of those names by making the prefix shorter by moving the >entire subdir into your cygwin root! > > " mv 450JUVMP / && rm -Rf /460JUVMP " should work.... > > cheers, > DaveK > Dave: this works. Eric: I figured it was a 'Doze problem. I was just looking for a good workaround and Dave provided it. Amazing what information is out there to be shared if you ask just half way civilized for it. Thanks to you both. Ken -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/