RE: arg list too long in unix

• "Markham, Richard" <RMarkham_at_hafeleamericas.com>

> find . -name "cz-session-*" | xargs rm -f

This will handle files in 8K chunks; find .. -e will fork for each file. Net result is that xargs is a much better way to go. On a multi-cpu system you can also use xargs -P to run jobs in parallel (at the expense of more forks).

Aside: be quite sure to run this on local storage only; running this on networked storage can saturate the network during the erase cycle.

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