rh-l] RE: Large number of files in single directory

[R P Herrold]

On Fri, 27 May 2005, Mike Wooding wrote:

>
> --- "Burke, Thomas G." <tg.burke at ngc.com> wrote:
>> I delete them by character...  e.g. rm -rf *1.tmp, rm -rf *2.tmp, and
>> so on.  Don't know of any other way to do it. - although I wrote a
>> little C program once to handle it for me.
>
> It's a shell limitation. There's a utility,
> "xargs" that will help work around this.
>
> man xargs

or, in the correct directory:

     find -type f -a -exec rm {} \;

will work

- Russ Herrold