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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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Altera_Forum
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14 years ago

you could try a bash script: 

#!/bin/bash
for file in $PWD/*
do
        if ]
        then
                rm $file
        fi
done