Linux

Hi,

I am getting /bin/rm: Argument list too long error while deleting files using below command:

rm -rf somenane*

Any help would be appreciated.

Ramesh

[cPanel/WHM Configuration]

It seems that the total number of files are high. You can check it using the following command:

ls -l | wc -l

Try to delete in a batch (500/1000 files) at a time.

Kailash

If you are absolutely sure that you want to remove everything in the directory use xargs.  

find . -name '*' | xargs rm

Or add a filestring to the wildcard