Argument list too long - help

[Tony Baldwin]

Carl Friis-Hansen wrote:
> I just discovered that ZoneManager has stored some 87000 png files in a
> directory.  I have no use of them and wanted to remove them.
> That turned out not to be so strait forward:
> 
> carl at cjfh3:~$ rm Webcam_Pictures/*.png
> bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long
> carl at cjfh3:~$
> 
> How do I best come around this issue?

$ cd Webcam_Pictures
$ rm *.png
maybe?
or, if the list of *.png is too long for rm to handle, maybe something 
like a loop.

$ cd Webcam_Pictures
$ for i in $(ls -l *.png); do rm $i; done
perhaps.
then it removes them one at a time, ie. you are only passing one file to 
rm at a time.

/tony

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