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Hi, Grant. |
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On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 12:32:42PM -0700, Grant wrote: |
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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 xargs - in place of |
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/bin/rm lots of files ...... |
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Use |
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Lots_of_file_names | xargs rm |
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. xargs then calls rm several times with batches of filenames each time. |
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xargs is a standard Unix command. |
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> - Grant |
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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |
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