[plug] Argument list too long

[Russell Steicke]

On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 02:13:23PM +0800, Brad Campbell wrote:
> G'day all
> 
> I have a dir that has lots of files in it
> (10658 to be exact)
> 
> rm * gives me an Argument list too long error.
> I can simply remove the dir, but is there another way ?

  $ find . -type f -maxdepth 1 -print0 | xargs -0 rm -f


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