[Bug 105543] Re: /bin/rm refuses to remove files

[Brian Murray]

It's not that "rm -f directory/*" is too long, rather that when the * is
expanded to "rm -f directory/filename directory/filename ...." the
command becomes too long.

** Changed in: bash (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  /bin/rm refuses to remove files

Status in “bash” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  I'm running Ubuntu Edgy
  When I'm trying to remove many files from a folder with the command
     rm test_displacement/*.png
  it says 
     bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long

  Nevertheless, the command
     rm test_displacement/1641.png
  works fine

  also, the following works:
  cd test_displacement; rm *.png

  In the folder test_displacement there are 5002 files and 5001 of them are of the form *.png
  The file system is ext2

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