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I don't know if it is related, but there used to be a limit in shell parameters expansion in exec, that's why xargs was so handy when "rm *.txt" wasn't possible

• aw3c2 12y ago
  At least in Bash * still won't work if you have a lot of files with long names: $ for i in {1..99999}; do touch "this is a really long filename so lets see what bash does or does not will it fail or will it work"$i; done $ rm * bash: /usr/bin/rm: Argument list too long