Jussi Hirvi wrote: > Lawrence Guirre (lawrence.guirre at gmail.com) > kirjoitteli (17.10.2008 12:55): >> 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 limitation has been removed from more recent kernels. http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=b6a2fea39318e43fee84fa7b0b90d68bed92d2ba http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/#Argument-list-too-long Jeremy