[Coco] [coco] Shell Scripts

[Bob Devries]

Yes, I have run into the shell memory problem also.
My solution, such as it is, is to then split up the delete into yhis format:

:del .h0/test/a*
:del /h0/test/b*
...
etc.
This is of course not proof against this problem.
I'm not sure there's any other (easy) way, though.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene Heskett" <gene.heskett at verizon.net>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 5:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] [coco] Shell Scripts


> On Monday 17 December 2007, Bob Devries wrote:
>>To delete all the files in /h0/test use this:
>>:del /h0/test/*
>>
>>Note the leading colon!
>>
>>This will *not* work in the stock Tandy version of OS9, but will work in
>>NitrOS9.
>>
> It also has problems with a dir with lots of files as the shell expansion 
> that
> will do can rather quickly run the shell out of memory on the coco.
>
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