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| From: | Paul Eggert |
| Subject: | bug#43657: rm does not delete files |
| Date: | Sun, 27 Sep 2020 15:54:19 -0700 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.10.0 |
On 9/27/20 1:00 PM, Amit Rao wrote:
rm /path/* does not delete files if there are a lot (say 2000) of them in a single directory
What does the command do instead?There is a limit as to how many arguments you can pass to 'rm'. If that's what you ran into, it's a problem with your kernel or your shell, not with 'rm'.
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