deleting large numbers of files

From: James Anderson <anderson_at_ocaxp1.cc.oberlin.edu>
Date: Tue, 05 Aug 1997 09:09:06 -0400 (EDT)

Seems someone on the net has taken it upon themselves to issue cancel
messages for anything they consider a spam in the entire alt.* hierarchy.
At this point the highest message number in the control.cancel hierarchy
is over 7000000. the directory itself is over 5 meg in size. is there an
easy way to say, blow that entire directory away without using rm? (keep
getting either arglist too long or the shell faults if I do a rm * or rm
-rf). I'd rather not newfs the partition, but I'm getting to that point.
This is an Alphaserver 400 running 3.2c and inn.

Jim

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