'rm' Can not delete files

[Da Rock]

On 02/11/12 01:34, Henry Olyer wrote:
> So what do I change if I want to increase the shell's file limit?
I don't think you can. It's not a shell limit. It's a limit to the 
number of arguments the command itself will take. As said, the shell 
expands '*' to a list of files as the argument, and rm is limited to the 
number of arguments it will parse.
> I use bash 4.
>
> And by the way, for me, part of the normal installation of a new FBSD box
> is to make certain changes.  For example, for "uniq -c" I use "%06" instead
> of "%d" because this way I can sort the output.  Things like that.
>
> I never learned a shell language.  I suppose no one is as dumb as someone
> who choose's not to learn, so, what's the right one.  csh?, because I do a
> lot of scientific work?, or should I be looking at another?
There's not really much difference in this factor for shell types; as 
for changes you'd have to hack the command's (say rm) code.

As mentioned, I'd use the find -delete combination.
> On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:25 PM, andrew clarke<mail at ozzmosis.com>  wrote:
>
>> On Tue 2012-02-07 23:17:16 UTC+0000, RW (rwmaillists at googlemail.com)
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:14:56 +0000
>>> Matthew Seaman wrote:
>>>
>>>> ls -1 | xargs rm
>>> but be aware that that wont work for filenames with spaces.
>> In addition, I don't believe it solves the OP's initial problem of the
>> argument list being too long!  You'd probably need to use the xargs -n
>> switch here.
>>
>> The above will also try to 'rm' directories, which won't work.
>>
>> Instead I would use 'find':
>>
>> find . -type f -depth 1 -delete
>>
>> This will also work with filenames with spaces.
>>
>> Or the scenic route, using xargs, with one rm per file (slower):
>>
>> find . -type f -depth 1 -print0 | xargs -n1 -0 rm -f
>>
>> (The "scenic route" is useful if you want to do something else with
>> the files instead of deleting them with rm.)
>>
>> Regards
>> Andrew
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