ls program* | xargs -n 20 rm


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On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, 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.
>
> Thanks......
>
> Regards,
> Bassam
>