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Question by TRay
Submitted on 8/23/2006
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AIX 5.1 Trying to use rm -r *.DAT command for large number files and failed to do so with a message  "Unable to remove file ......too long". Is there a limit? I can delete files using rm -r ABC???????.??? but there also some kind of limitation as does not work all situation. I am trying to delete around 27000 files in one shot.


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