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error report from recipe

2007-08-23 12:43:17

The following recipe generates an error I do not know how to deal with..

# -------------------------------------------------------
:0 c
$MAILDIR/backup
:0 ic
| cd ~/mail/backup && rm -f dummy `ls -t msg.* | sed -e 1,6000d`
-------------------------------------------------------

the error:

 Folder:  cd ~/mail/backup && rm -f dummy ls -t msg.* | sed -e 1,600
/bin/bash: /bin/ls: Argument list too long


Am I limited to three digits or is the error msg truncated.  I really
want to maintain an accumulation of ~6000 duplicate msgs.

tks,
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