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

Yes, you are right - my example was misleading.

Thanks for the very easy solution (cd into directory). Have to try it the next time.

- Jussi

Paul Bijnens (Paul.Bijnens@xplanation.com) kirjoitteli (17.10.2008 13:18):

I believe you gave a bad example! In the command

rm -rf /var/amavis/tmp

the argument list is not at all "very long". However if you did:

rm -rf /var/amavis/tmp/*

then the argument list could be very long depending on the number of entries there are in the subdirectory.

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