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From: "Michael A. Chase" <mchase AT ix DOT netcom DOT com>
To: "Axel Kowald" <axel AT itb DOT biologie DOT hu-berlin DOT de>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
References: <3B122854 DOT 43A5EBA8 AT itb DOT biologie DOT hu-berlin DOT de>
Subject: Re: Too many files for: rm *.txt ??
Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 11:52:14 -0700
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The file wildcard expression is expanded by the shell before rm is called
and overflows the command line buffer.  Select fewer files or clean up more
often.

A for loop over the alphabet (numbers and upper and lower case) followed by
a final *.txt to catch the remainder should help you clean up your current
backlog.

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Axel Kowald" <axel AT itb DOT biologie DOT hu-berlin DOT de>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Monday, May 28, 2001 03:28
Subject: Too many files for: rm *.txt ??


> 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 ?



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