Subject: Re: bug#43657: rm does not delete files

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2020 01:01:56 -0700

On 9/27/20 8:58 PM, Amit Rao wrote:
> There's a limit? My first attempt didn't use a wildcard; i attempted to delete a directory.

'rm dir' fails because 'rm' by default leaves directories alone.

> My second attempt was rm -rf dir/*

If "dir" has too many files that will fail due to shell limitations that have 
nothing to do with Coreutils. Use 'rm -rf dir' instead.