[Linux-disciples] Large argument lists

Stephen R Laniel steve at laniels.org
Fri Jul 21 13:27:24 EDT 2006


On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 01:21:01PM -0400, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote:
> I'm not aware of any all-purpose solution, but why aren't you just doing rm
> -r dirName in this case?

I suppose the easiest approach is

rm -r dirName
mkdir dirName

but the idea is just to delete all the files in there, not
the directory itself. Point taken.

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