Arg list too long error? Here's a work-around.

Boyd Roberts boyd at necisa.ho.necisa.oz
Fri Nov 16 09:41:49 AEST 1990


In article <1990Nov14.192707.1099 at millipore.com> lampert at millipore.com (Jeff Lampert) writes:
>So, by giving the command:
>
>find . -name "SRW*" -exec rm {} \;
>
>I was able to delete all the SRW files.

Wow!  Just when I thought the xargs thread had died.


Boyd Roberts			boyd at necisa.ho.necisa.oz.au

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