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On Sun, 17 Jul 2011 12:32:42 -0700, Grant wrote about [gentoo-user] Any |
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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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Regards, |
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Dave [RLU #314465] |
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dwnoon@××××××××.com (David W Noon) |
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