Deleting LARGE number of files

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If I want keep directory, what shoild I do?


>From: ameet p <ameetissatan at yahoo.co.uk>
>Reply-To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list <redhat-list at redhat.com>
>To: Chris <redhat-list at dotcomdesigners.com>,General Red Hat Linux 
>discussion list <redhat-list at redhat.com>
>Subject: Re: Deleting LARGE number of files
>Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 16:48:25 +1000 (EST)
>
>rm -r and directory name.
>
>Chris <redhat-list at dotcomdesigners.com> wrote:Okay, newbie question - and I 
>can't find the answer on
>Google... :-|
>
>How can you delete the contents of a directory that has a
>HUGE number of files? By huge I mean when "rm -f *"
>complains with "too many items" error message. I don't care
>what's in there, I just want to wipe it all.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Chris
>
>
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