[Q] Delete file get "parameter too long"

From: bbb bb (mccux1@HOTMAIL.COM)
Date: Tue Apr 27 2004 - 08:28:43 EDT

We have AIX 4.3.3 on RS6000. I tried to delte files and get "parameter too
long". I need change to that directory to delete it.
Does anyone know why and how to fix it?

The procedures I do:

$ rm /user1/dir1/*
ksh: /usr/bin/rm: 0403-027 The parameter list is too long.
$ ls -al /user1/dir1/*|wc -l
ksh: /usr/bin/ls: 0403-027 The parameter list is too long.
       0
$ cd /user1/dir1
$ ls -lt|wc -l
    1042
$ rm *
$ ls -al
total 232
drwxrwxrwx 2 informix sys 22016 Apr 27 07:00 .
drwxrwsrwx 16 informix sys 90624 Apr 27 06:01 ..

Thanks.

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