Re: [tlug] Website Question(s)

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

>>>>> "Patrick" == Patrick Niessen <tlug.niessen@example.com> writes:

    Lyle> >Is there some kind of limit on the number of .jpg files
    Lyle> that can be in >one folder?  I have a page with links to
    Lyle> HTML files - all of which are >pulling photos from the same
    Lyle> folder.

    Patrick> Well I have regularly trouble deleting the content of my
    Patrick> spam-assassin spam folder with rm virusmail/* .
    Patrick> Apparently too many parameters ...

That's a shell limit, not a filesystem issue.

    Patrick> So I need to delete first all beginning with a then with
    Patrick> b then with c, etc ...

That works but there's no "need" for it.  :^)

find virusmail | xargs rm


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