Runaway newsfiles break ls

[Karl Kleinpaste]

pjh at mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg) writes:
   I have so many .ara????, .arb????, .ina????? and .inb??? in
   /usr2/spool/news that any command that uses metacharacters returns with
   the "too many arguments" message, and ls runs out of memory and dumps core!
   How can I either process these or get rid of them?

# for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
> do
>   for j in ar in
>   do
>     for k in a b
>     do
>       rm .$j$k*$i
>     done
>   done
> done

That should give it to the shell in metachar-manageable pieces.  But
don't expect it to be fast.

If not, there's always "rm -fr ..."

--Karl