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 at gmail.com> wrote: > 2008/10/17 Jussi Hirvi <greenspot at 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