I had this problem once when you ls the list, you'll see that many of
them have similar characteristics, so you can do an rm -f thifile???.*, and
delete them a few at a time...
In my particular instance, this did not work, as there were, like 1 of
each similar filename (It was an SGI ser
On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 08:45:30AM -0600, SoloCDM wrote:
> Recently I executed the following command:
>
> rm -f dummy "ls -t msg.* | sed -e 1,900d"
>
> As a result, I received the following error:
>
> bash: /bin/ls: Argument list too long
>
> I know why (14,522 msg.* files exist in t
