Re: arg list too long in unix

Might take awhile to fork 70k+ shells.

I don't know of any good reason to ever use -exec.

If the arg list is too long, one way to shorten it is with 'head'.

  find /dir_2_clean -name "cz*" -print | head -1000 | xargs rm -f

Just run that til the files are all gone.

Jared

On Thursday 29 August 2002 07:58, Philip Douglass wrote:
> I'm not sure xargs will work -- it seems to me that since xargs is
> typically invoked as: 'ls cz* | xargs rm', Nuno is likely to get the same
> arg list too long error. I think the best way to delete the files would
> be: 'find . -name cz\* -exec rm -f {} \;'
>
> -- Philip
>
> ----- Original Message -----
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> Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 7:43 AM
>
>
> Use the "xargs" command.
> Read about it in the man pages.
> Or use "find", but that is more complex.
>
> Cheers
> Nuno Souto
> nsouto_at_optushome.com.au
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> > 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.
>
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