you can step back and delete the whole folder i guess. or if files which are to be left in that folder are lesser than the files to be deleted then cp them into another folder, and delete the whole folder. Like:
pwd /home/abc mkdir /home/abc-backup cp *.c /home/abc-backup/ cd .. rm -rf abc mv abc-backup abc chown abc:abc abc chown abc:abc abc/* or chown -R abc:abc abc/ ( i guess ) and you're done. Atleast this is how I do it. If you find any other better way then sure let me know. Regards, --------- Muhammad Faisal Rauf Danka Chief Technology Officer Gem Internet Services (Pvt) Ltd. web: www.gem.net.pk voice: 92-021-111-GEMNET Vice President Pakistan Computer Emergency Responce Team (PakCERT) web: www.pakcert.org Chief Security Analyst Applied Technology Research Center (ATRC) web: www.atrc.net.pk voice: 92-21-4980523 92-21-4974781 "Great is the Art of beginning, but Greater is the Art of ending. " ------BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK---- Version: 3.1 GCS/CM/P/TW d- s: !a C++ B@ L$ S$ U+++ P+ L+++ E--- W+ N+ o+ K- w-- O- PS PE- Y- PGP+ t+ X R tv+ b++ DI+ D G e++ h! r+ y+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ --- Jeff Bearer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >What is an easy way to delete 9000 files in a directory when rm -f * >fails saying the argument list is too long? I'd prefer not to have to >do it a little bit at a time like: > >rm -f a*; rm -f b*; etc. > > >-- >Jeff Bearer, RHCE >Webmaster >PittsburghLIVE.com >2002 EPpy Award, Best Online U.S. Newspaper > > > >_______________________________________________ >Redhat-list mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list _____________________________________________________________ --------------------------- [ATTITUDEX.COM] http://www.attitudex.com/ --------------------------- _____________________________________________________________ Promote your group and strengthen ties to your members with [EMAIL PROTECTED] by Everyone.net http://www.everyone.net/?btn=tag _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
