[debbugs-tracker] bug#28082: closed (bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long)

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regarding bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long
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> bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long
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> Hello
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> 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.
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> Roughly 60,000 files
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> So total strings around 2.4 MBytes. Quite a small limit.
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> $rm jonny*.*
> bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long
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> rm (GNU coreutils) 8.25
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> I'm not on this list, could you keep my email address in replies
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> Regards, Jonny
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> Jonny Grant wrote:
> > Can this be resolved please?
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> It cannot be resolved by sending email to bug-gnu-utils, because the problem is 
> due to a limit enforced by your operating system kernel, not by bash or by 'rm' 
> or by any other GNU utility. Please file a bug report with whoever maintains 
> your kernel.
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