Re: delete large list of files

[Raleigh Rinehart]

On 4/4/2011 3:35 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2011 14:45:14 -0500
> > From: Raleigh Rinehart<address@hidden>
> > > > # $(call rm-cmd,FILE_LIST,Chunk Size,rm options)
> > > > rm-cmd=$(strip $(eval __a :=)$(foreach w,$1,$(if $(filter $2,$(words
> > > > $(__a))),$(shell $(RM) $3 $(strip $(__a)) )$(eval __a:=))$(eval __a
> > > > +=$w))$(shell $(RM) $3 $(__a))
> > > What is the value of "RM"?
> > Sorry, I should have included that in the original e-mail.
> >
> > rm is defined as:
> >
> > GNUTOOLS := c:\progra~1\GnuWin32
> > RM    := $(GNUTOOLS)\bin\rm.exe -f
> Does it help to use forward slashes, both in GNUTOOLS and in RM?  You
> may need to include $(RM) in quotes then, like this:
>
>
>     $(shell "$(RM)" $3 $(__a))

Surprisingly that does seem to have done the trick (sans quotes).
Many thanks Eli!

-raleigh