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Re: [tlug] everlasting directory




>>>>> On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, "Viktor" == Viktor Pavlenko wrote:

  Viktor> Then find . -name idex | xargs rm -f

No, wont work. Problem not with number of arguments passed to rm
command, but with length of line, i.e. number of levels your recursive
dir goes.

  Viktor> By the way, on my system (rh 7.3) arg list becomes too long
  Viktor> when it reaches 23544 !

It's not too hard to imagine script that will go deeper then that in 
dirs creation. 

--dk


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