Journal entries in 'Miscellaneous' for December, 2004

Make up your mind, rm

Posted on December 5, 2004 at 3:44 PM in 'Miscellaneous'

[root@www new]# pwd
/home/postmaster/Maildir/new
[root@www new]# ls -al | wc -l
272554
[root@www new]# rm
rm: too few arguments
Try `rm --help' for more information.
[root@www new]# rm *
-bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long

Edit: And if you're curious what processing 272k emails does to a poor little P133, here's a CPU utilization graph.

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