rm - Argument list too long

[Kirk Strauser]

On Friday 27 January 2006 17:52, Paul Schmehl wrote:
> for files in *.*
> do
> rm $files
> done

Don't ever, *EVER* blindly unlink glob expansions.  It's bad for you.

Instead, use something like:

    find . -name 'sess.*' -delete
-- 
Kirk Strauser
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