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Dec 252009
 

How to resolve the '/bin/rm: Argument list too long' error

Answer:

Use the xargs command, e.g.

find . -name '*' | xargs rm

The above command will find all files in the current directory and pipe the filename to xargs for using rm to removing them.

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