Unable to delete LARGE folder

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Wed Dec 7 16:38:43 UTC 2011


On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 11:26:49AM -0500, Stephen W. Clarke wrote:
> Thanks for the quick response!!
> 
> Ted:
> > does it let you delete one file even?
> Not sure as the directory is so big I can't get it to list the file names.

ls by default sorts.  If you asked it not to sort it would probably work.

find doesn't sort, and hence has no such issue.

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