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

Satchel Paige - "Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you."

On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 4:36 AM, Laurent Wandrebeck l.wandrebeck@gmail.com wrote:

2008/10/17 Jussi Hirvi greenspot@greenspot.fi:

...

Since when is there a limit in how long directory listings CentOS can show (ls), or how large directories can be removed (rm). It is really annoying to say, for example

rm -rf /var/amavis/tmp

and get only "argument list too long" as feedback.

Is there a way to go round this problem?

I have CentOS 5.2.

• Jussi

try something like: for i in /var/amavis/tmp/* do rm -rf $i done

it should be:

for i in `ls /var/amavis/tmp` do rm $i done