[LUNI] rm help

[Mike Crawford]

Try:

for each in *; do
rm $each
done

dunno if the * will put too many args in here, but it's worth a shot.

mike

Ronald Petty said:
> I have a directory that has a HUGE number of files in it, so large I
> don't want to wait to find out how many.
>
> I tried
>
> rm *
>
> but it didn't work, said too many arguments.  So I tried
>
> ls | rm
>
> but it didn't work, said too few arguments
>
> I did
>
> ls | xargs rm
>
> and it worked, I assume ls | rm doesn't work because rm doesn't take
> interactive input if that makes sense.  Could someone clear this up for
> me?
>
> Thanks
> Ron
>
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