Re: [CentOS] ls and rm: "argument list too long"

Jussi Hirvi wrote:

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piping ls to xargs should do the trick. man xargs for details.

Ok, thanks for ideas, Laurent and Lawrence.

A strange limitation in ls and rm, though. My friend said he hasn't seen that in Fedora.

This issue is in Fedora, Ubuntu, CentOS, RHEL, (put any other linux version you want here).

When you get too many files in a directory, you will receive this error. The same SOURCE code is compiled regardless of the "Distro".

As you have seen. there are many solutions to this problem ... HOWEVER, picking a new distro is not one of them

Most people never hit this limitation, but it is certainly possible and there in all versions of Linux.

Thanks, Johnny Hughes