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Altera_Forum
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14 years ago

Too many filename matches

Hello, I got a system that records to a Compact Flash disk. Everything works great except when I try to delete a bunch of files using rm *.dat. It gives me the message: "Too many filename ...
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14 years ago

Hi. I don't know busybox but I know linux.

The parse of "*.dat" seems to exceed the max number of arguments.

"ls" hangs up but responds later (very later) I think.

A begin of an idea (remove by groups):

rm a*.dat

rm b*.dat

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