Re: delete large list of files

[Stephan Beal]

On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 8:16 PM, Raleigh Rinehart <address@hidden>wrote:

> This is using gnu-make 3.81 on windows:
>

i don't know if this is still the case, but back when i used Windows its
default shell had a very small command-line-length limit (128 characters,
maybe? 256?). Unix shells tend to have a much higher limit. In the off
chance that you have "xargs" on Windows, that tool is made for breaking up
long argument lists, e.g.:

~> xargs rm < list_of_files.txt


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