Al'shaebani, Bassam wrote:

Hello All,
I'm came across an issue yesteday, does anyone know a way around
deleting a large number of files without getting the 'parameter too
long'
message. i.e. I was trying to delete all the file that began with
program*.
There were too many files, so I had to actually cut my search down, to
something like program01* and so forth, to avoid the error message.

That's a shell issue, not necessarily an AIX issue. The problem is that
the shell is responsible for expanding the commandline parameters. Thus
typing *, the shell expands that to ALL the file that match (i.e. all of
them).

For instances like this, there are probably more ways than I have
fingers, but genrally one that will always work is using find. e.g.

find <dir> -name '*' -exec rm {} \;

Thanks......

Regards,
Bassam

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