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Command Line Arguments Linux Unix

05/06/19

Argument list too long error for rm, cp, mv commands?

I have several hundred PDFs under a directory in UNIX. The names of the PDFs are really long (approx. 60 chars). When I try to delete all PDFs together using the following command: rm -f... more

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