Re: rm - Arguments too long

From: Bit Twister (BitTwister@localhost.localdomain)
Date: 04/22/03 

From: Bit Twister <BitTwister@localhost.localdomain>
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 23:00:46 GMT

On Mon, 21 Apr 2003 18:32:37 -0400, cljlk wrote:
> I use rm -r directory, it hang for 3 days, it still could not
> delete the directory. Thus I cd directory and rm *, I got
> "Arguments too long". How do I delete files? A
> can I have other alternation option to remove the directory?
> Thanks
>

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