Argument list too long - help

[Muzer]

Carl Friis-Hansen wrote:
> On Wed, June 10, 2009 20:53, Muzer wrote:
>   
>> Carl Friis-Hansen wrote:
>>     
>>> I just discovered that ZoneManager has stored some 87000 png files in a
>>> directory.  I have no use of them and wanted to remove them.
>>> That turned out not to be so strait forward:
>>>
>>> carl at cjfh3:~$ rm Webcam_Pictures/*.png
>>> bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long
>>> carl at cjfh3:~$
>>>
>>> How do I best come around this issue?
>>>
>>>       
>> for f in `ls Webcam_Pictures/*.png`; do rm $f; done
>>
>> Should work, obviously not tested. You might want to replace the rm with
>> something harmless like "echo" first, just to make sure.
>>     
>
> Sad, it didn't work either:
> carl at cjfh3:~$ for f in `ls Webcam_Pictures/*.png`; do ls $f; done
> bash: /bin/ls: Argument list too long
> carl at cjfh3:~$
>
>
>   

for f in `find -name 'Webcam_Pictures/*.png'`; do rm $f; done


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