Unable to delete LARGE folder

[Terrence Enger]

On Wed, 2011-12-07 at 12:47 -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 12:43:20PM -0500, James Knott wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> You will probably exceed the shell command line limit.

Some commands do their own wildcard expansion; I do not know if `rm` 
is one of them.  So, whether it works or not, the shell should not 
complain if you do `rm '*'`.

Just kibitzing,
Terry.


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