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To: Axel Kowald <axel AT itb DOT biologie DOT hu-berlin DOT de>
Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Too many files for: rm *.txt ??
References: <3B122854 DOT 43A5EBA8 AT itb DOT biologie DOT hu-berlin DOT de>
From: Andrew Markebo <flognat AT flognat DOT myip DOT org>
Date: 28 May 2001 12:50:04 +0200
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This is a problem due to a 'restriction' of your shell.. Solution.. do
something like 'find . -name "*.txt" | xargs rm ' which splits the
lists and runs many rm's.. 

        /Andy

/ Axel Kowald <axel AT itb DOT biologie DOT hu-berlin DOT de> wrote:
| Hello,
| 
| I'm using tcsh (6.10) under cygwin 1.1.8 and everything runs nicely.
| However, when I try to delete >5500 files using rm *.txt I get
| "/usr/bin/rm: Invalid argument". It seems that the shell or rm can't
| handle so many files.
| 
| Is this a known problem and what can I do about it ?
| 
| Many thanks,
| 
| 	Axel
| 
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