[GRASS-dev] g.mremove bug?

[Moritz Lennert]

On 21/02/08 12:05, Martin Wegmann wrote:
> Hello, 
> 
> to validate a modelling module I generated output raster (ca. 10000 - but I 
> did not want to look at each of them ,-) )
> 
> but when I try to remove them using g.mremove I get:
> 
> g.mremove rast=out_ST* -f
> Collecting map names for current mapset <nlm>...
> Forcing ...
> /usr/local/grass-6.3.svn/scripts/g.mremove: line 
> 218: /usr/local/grass-6.3.svn/bin/g.remove: Lists of arguments is too long
> /usr/local/grass-6.3.svn/scripts/g.mremove: line 
> 218: /usr/local/grass-6.3.svn/bin/g.remove: success

The shell has a maximum line length (and maximum argument number ?) 
which you probably exceed with this list.

You'd probably be better off doing something like this:

for map in `g.mlist rast pattern="out_ST*"`
   do
     g.remove $map
   done


Moritz