[plug] rm of contents

Trevor Phillips T.Phillips at murdoch.edu.au
Mon Mar 17 12:03:00 WST 2003


On Monday 17 March 2003 11:42, James Devenish wrote:
> 
> > The first will fail if it finds lots of files, as the command line will
> > be too long.
>
> But that is exactly the problem that xargs avoids!?!?!?!?!

Does it? Maybe I should read up on xargs some more... ^_^

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