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| From: | Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-user] Any way around "Argument list too long"? | ||
| Date: | Sun, 17 Jul 2011 21:15:53 | ||
| Message-Id: | CAEdtorbHtmhJYvKmtUeDKDBHFZ2k=f=6gX+=PYb3YgK8xekE7A@mail.gmail.com | ||
| In Reply to: | [gentoo-user] Any way around "Argument list too long"? by Grant |
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| 1 | Are you using wildcards in the arguments to rm ? |
| 2 | |
| 3 | Rather use find | xargs or find -exec which are designed to deal with |
| 4 | exactly this circumstance. |
| 5 | |
| 6 | On 17 Jul 2011 9:32 PM, "Grant" <emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote: |
| 7 | |
| 8 | My crontab deletes all files of a certain type in a certain folder |
| 9 | with yesterday's date in the filename. It usually executes but |
| 10 | sometimes fails with: |
| 11 | |
| 12 | /bin/rm: Argument list too long |
| 13 | |
| 14 | What would you do about this? |
| 15 | |
| 16 | - Grant |
| Subject | Author |
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| [gentoo-user] Re: Any way around "Argument list too long"? | walt <w41ter@×××××.com> |