bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long

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bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long

Mon, 2006-11-13 16:40 — superuser

When trying to clean out some LARGE cache directories I recieved the following error:

[technotes@zebra cache]# rm *
-bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long

The quick fix to this was:

find . -name * | xargs rm

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