Oracle-L: AW: arg list too long in unix

From: Stefan Jahnke <Stefan.Jahnke_at_bov.de>
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 06:18:22 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.004C266F.20020829061822@fatcity.com>

take a look at xargs, it handles those things.

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Von: kommareddy sreenivasa [mailto:kommacnu_at_yahoo.com] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 29. August 2002 12:59 An: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Betreff: arg list too long in unix

Hi all,

OS: SOlaris 2.8
DB: 8i

In the clean up process of the following files, I am trying to list out the files that start with cz.

 cz-session-returnui177_11Jan02_0959AM_33509.txt
 cz-session-Applet178_11Jan02_0959AM_34108.txt
 cz-session-returnui175_11Jan02_0959AM_20504.txt
 cz-session-DHTML176_11Jan02_0959AM_22335.txt
 cz-session-returnui179_11Jan02_1000AM_34566.txt
 cz-session-Applet180_11Jan02_1000AM_34818.txt
 cz-session-BatchSingle181_11Jan02_1001AM_07757.txt
 cz-session-BatchSingle182_11Jan02_1001AM_11687.txt
 cz-session-BatchSingle183_11Jan02_1001AM_14010.txt
 cz-session-BatchSingle184_11Jan02_1001AM_17708.txt
 cz-session-BatchSingle185_11Jan02_1001AM_20029.txt

but when I issue ls -ltr cz* , I am getting arg list too long error. I 70,000-80,000 files that needs to be removed from the directory.

I cant list them using ls -ltr *session* as this string may change. I have to identify the files that srart with cz only.

can somebody through somelight on this.

thanx in advance,
srinivas

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