Deleting LARGE number of files

[Mike Wooding]

--- Ryan Golhar <golharam at umdnj.edu> wrote:
> Just out of curiousity, why is it a problem to
> delete a large number of
> files?  What is 'rm' doing?  This sort of sounds
> like a bug in rm

 Has nothing to do with "rm" ... there's a space
 limitation for command (sh) lines . Hence xargs.



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