This is a problem due to a 'restriction' of your shell.. Solution.. do something like 'find . -name "*.txt" | xargs rm ' which splits the lists and runs many rm's.. /Andy / Axel Kowald <axel@itb.biologie.hu-berlin.de> wrote: | Hello, || I'm using tcsh (6.10) under cygwin 1.1.8 and everything runs nicely. | However, when I try to delete >5500 files using rm *.txt I get | "/usr/bin/rm: Invalid argument". It seems that the shell or rm can't | handle so many files. || Is this a known problem and what can I do about it ? || Many thanks, || Axel || -- | Want to unsubscribe from this list? | Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple