Argument list too long - help

[Carl Friis-Hansen]

On Wed, June 10, 2009 20:52, Tony Baldwin 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?
>
> $ cd Webcam_Pictures
> $ rm *.png
> maybe?

Yes, it is currently removing.
I will look through the many other suggestions for the next time (if it
happens again).

Thanks


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