Unable to delete LARGE folder

[Yanni Chiu]

On 07/12/11 12:47 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 12:43:20PM -0500, James Knott wrote:
>>   I'd try something like rm * in that directory to see what
>> happens.
>
> You will probably exceed the shell command line limit.

Yup, I've that happen.

Usually I do:

rm a*
rm b*
... etc.

or,
rm [a-k]*
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