GNU bug report logs - #28082
bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Jonny Grant <jg <at> jguk.org>

Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2017 21:37:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Jonny Grant <jg <at> jguk.org>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2017 22:35:54 +0100

Hello

Can this be resolved please? Seems a shame in 2017 on a machine with 
16GB of ram I suffer this. Each filename is around 40 bytes.

Roughly 60,000 files

So total strings around 2.4 MBytes. Quite a small limit.

$rm jonny*.*
bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long


rm (GNU coreutils) 8.25

I'm not on this list, could you keep my email address in replies

Regards, Jonny
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