17 Oct
2008
17 Oct
'08
12:48 p.m.
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.
Are you sure you are comparing apples to apples? There is nothing particularly Centos specific about this problem. I've seen it on a variety of *NIX systems over the years, though I presume some distributions or UNIX variants may have upped the buffer size.
Here is an interesting blog post which illustrates how you can get into this kind trouble:
http://stevenroddis.com/2006/10/07/binrm-argument-list-too-long/index.html
-geoff