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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Too many files to list / remove Post 25635 by dinplant on Thursday 1st of August 2002 04:02:28 PM
Old 08-01-2002
Error Too many files to list / remove

I have a directory which has 614,000 files.

When attempting to do an ls -ralt in the directory an error too many arguments is shown.

1. I would like to see what files and their stats in the directory
2. I would like to delete certain files of a certain age
 

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