Cleaning up /var

[Graaf_van_Vlaanderen]

I was trying to clean up all files in:

/var/db/freebsd-update/files

But received the following error:

Helena# rm *
/bin/rm: Argument list too long

Could this be the reason?

Helena# ls | wc -l
  140680

The high number of files?

 

[graudeejs]

Yes, it is the reason.

cd to dir and
$ ls | xargs rm -fR

 

[DutchDaemon]

You could probaly also have done [cmd=]rm -rf /var/db/freebsd-update/files && mkdir /var/db/freebsd-update/files[/cmd] instead of piping 140680 file names to xargs and rm