Too many arguments error
 

Hi,
what happens when this error comes i.e too many arguments.I have a doubt that after running rm * its give me error,so is files deleted or not from my directory.

Are you sure that the message is "too many arguments",
what you do is rm *? Be careful with this command or you might end up deleting something you don't want to.


May it be this? /bin/rm: cannot execute [Argument list too long]

This happens because it expands the asterisk, then you get a very long command line.
It won't delete anything if it's giving that error.

Thank you

The reason it doesn't work is because the shell creates the parameter list while parsing the command line. This usually doesn't fail - but when the exec system call is used to invoke the /usr/bin/rm utility, the exec files with this error.