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> way around "Argument list too long"?: |
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>> My crontab deletes all files of a certain type in a certain folder |
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>> with yesterday's date in the filename. It usually executes but |
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>> sometimes fails with: |
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>> /bin/rm: Argument list too long |
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>> What would you do about this? |
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> Use find with the -delete option. |
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I'm getting the same thing from find: |
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$ /usr/bin/find /home/user/*-`/bin/date -d 'yesterday' +\%Y\%m\%d`*.jpg |
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/usr/bin/find: Argument list too long |
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$ /usr/bin/find -delete /home/user/*-`/bin/date -d 'yesterday' +\%Y\%m\%d`*.jpg |
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/usr/bin/find: Argument list too long |
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$ /usr/bin/find /home/user/*-`/bin/date -d 'yesterday' +\%Y\%m\%d`*.jpg|xargs rm |
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/usr/bin/find: Argument list too long |
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rm: missing operand |
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Try `rm --help' for more information. |
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- Grant |
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