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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Any way around "Argument list too long"? |
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From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de> |
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Date: 2011-07-18 02:42 |
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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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You'll want to be extra careful with special characters like (space), single quote, and double quote. |
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Better use find ..... -exec rm {} + |
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See: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xargs |
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Rgds, |
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