Argument list too long - help

[Carl Friis-Hansen]

On Wed, June 10, 2009 20:53, Muzer wrote:
> 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?
>>
> for f in `ls Webcam_Pictures/*.png`; do rm $f; done
>
> Should work, obviously not tested. You might want to replace the rm with
> something harmless like "echo" first, just to make sure.

Sad, it didn't work either:
carl at cjfh3:~$ for f in `ls Webcam_Pictures/*.png`; do ls $f; done
bash: /bin/ls: Argument list too long
carl at cjfh3:~$


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