-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2008-03-26 at 19:51 +0100, Istvan Gabor wrote:
I've just realized that my .thumbnails folder occupies 3.3 Gbyte space. I wanted to empty it by: rm .thumbnails/large/*
but got the error message: bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long
The file number in the folder is ~ 60 000.
Why rm is not working?
Because the argument list is too long :-)
Is this a bug?
Nop. however, that the .thumbnails directory becomes so large, could be a bug.
How can I delete these files w/o removing the folder itself?
With some other command line, without a "*" on it. When you type "anycommand .thumbnails/large/*" the shell will expand that to something so large that it overflows the capacity for a single line. The typical solution is a combination of find and xargs and pipes, so that the delete command gets a file at a time. Or use midnight comander, I think it can handle it. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFH6qAutTMYHG2NR9URAkIiAJ9XRvfPNekKWTo7Owh3JWQiaWglSQCgh2lc GfxlJni38N4VFdir26f+6bw= =sAgJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org