the problem:
On Tue, 5 Aug 1997, James Anderson wrote:
>
> 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
>
The solutions? Too numerous to mention... most focused on using find and
xargs which is what I ended up doing. Some interesting ideas on using
unlink and such too. Thanks to all who responded.
Jim
ps - executive summary - find . -print |xargs rm -f
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