Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com To: Axel Kowald Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Too many files for: rm *.txt ?? References: <3B122854.43A5EBA8@itb.biologie.hu-berlin.de> From: Andrew Markebo Date: 28 May 2001 12:50:04 +0200 In-Reply-To: <3B122854.43A5EBA8@itb.biologie.hu-berlin.de> Message-ID: Lines: 23 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 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 | | -- | Want to unsubscribe from this list? | Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple