rm * Argument list too long
To delete all files in the current directory, you run the extremely dangerous
**rm * **
and
**rm -rf ***
to recursively remove all files and directories.
However, the command has a 128K buffer limitation in the Linux Kernel. As a workaround you can pipe each file to rm like so:
**find . -name '*' | xargs rm**
See this article for details.
Posted: 24 November 2008
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