[oclug] WEIRD!!

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 02:30:48PM -0400, Jon Earle wrote:
> Anyone have any idea what caused these things to appear?  And how can I
> (easily) delete 270k files... rm mgetty* says the arg list is too long!

for i in mgetty*; do rm $i; done should do the trick.  it will take a while
though.  a better alternative would probably be:

echo mgetty* | xargs rm

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