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

Lawrence Guirre lawrence.guirre at gmail.com
Fri Oct 17 09:55:57 UTC 2008


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

Jussi Hirvi wrote:
> 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
>
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