Unable to delete LARGE folder

[James Knott]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 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.
>

Of course, it should be possible to delete files without running ls 
first.  I'd try something like rm * in that directory to see what happens.
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