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Bug #485

Updated by Daniel Curtis about 10 years ago

I came cam across a problem delete a massive amount of individual files, the error displayed the following: 
 > /bin/rm: Argument list too long. 

 After doing a bit of research online I came across a neat solution to work around this issue. 
 <pre> 
 cd /path/to/directory 
 find . -name '*' | xargs rm 
 </pre> 

 h2. Resources 

 * http://www.simplehelp.net/2009/02/18/linux-tip-overcoming-the-binrm-argument-list-too-long-error/

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