From: Robert Hoehne Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: bash Date: Mon, 04 Aug 1997 11:18:50 +0200 Organization: TU Chemnitz-Zwickau Lines: 27 Message-ID: <33E59E7A.382B23FB@Mathematik.TU-Chemnitz.DE> References: <33E15997 DOT FA0 AT sympatico DOT ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: pandora.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk Jim Chapman wrote: > > rm *. It removed files ffffff01 to ffffff14. I executed the command Please make sure, that you are using rm from the DJGPP package fileutils!!! You can test it with rm --version If it is any other rm.exe (not a DJGPP program) it does not know about the long commandlines and a short computation gives you the reason for deleting only the first 14 files: count_of_file * (length_filename+one_space) 14 * ( 8 + 1 ) = 126 which is the maximum allowed commandline length for non-DJGPP programs (under raw DOS). Robert -- ***************************************************************** * Robert Hoehne, Fakultaet fuer Mathematik, TU-Chemnitz-Zwickau * * Post: Am Berg 3, D-09573 Dittmannsdorf * * e-Mail: Robert DOT Hoehne AT Mathematik DOT TU-Chemnitz DOT DE * * WWW: http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~rho * *****************************************************************