SUMMARY: rm limitations?

From: McGuinness Todd (todd.mcguinness@nagra.com)
Date: Fri Apr 26 2002 - 12:16:22 EDT

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Ok gang thanks, stupid question. The command was aliased to rm -e. without
it works.

Thanks for the response,

tm

-----Original Message-----
From: A. Mahendra Rajah [mailto:Mahendra.Rajah@URegina.CA]
Sent: vendredi, 26. avril 2002 18:10
To: McGuinness Todd
Subject: Re: rm limitations?

"what would be the other cause of an error: arg too long."

   If you had wildcards in the filespec part, remember the shell
   expands them into files before calling rm. The limitation
   probably lies with the shell's command line buffer.

   -- mahendra

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