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Re: [SLUG] Help with rm


Andrew Reilly <areilly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The problem is that shells usually have a command line buffer limit of
> around 10k bytes, and in a very full directory * might expand to

Actually it's the kernel.  Good shells usually don't have these limits.
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