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bug#43657: rm does not delete files
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From: |
Paul Eggert |
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bug#43657: rm does not delete files |
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Date: |
Mon, 28 Sep 2020 01:01:56 -0700 |
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On 9/27/20 8:58 PM, Amit Rao wrote:
There's a limit? My first attempt didn't use a wildcard; i attempted to delete
a directory.
'rm dir' fails because 'rm' by default leaves directories alone.
My second attempt was rm -rf dir/*
If "dir" has too many files that will fail due to shell limitations that have
nothing to do with Coreutils. Use 'rm -rf dir' instead.