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| From: | walt <w41ter@×××××.com> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | [gentoo-user] Re: Any way around "Argument list too long"? | ||
| Date: | Sun, 17 Jul 2011 22:08:10 | ||
| Message-Id: | ivvmdd$i5f$1@dough.gmane.org | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-user] Any way around "Argument list too long"? by Alan McKinnon |
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| 1 | On 07/17/2011 02:14 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
| 2 | > Are you using wildcards in the arguments to rm ? |
| 3 | > |
| 4 | > Rather use find | xargs or find -exec which are designed to deal with |
| 5 | > exactly this circumstance. |
| 6 | > |
| 7 | >> On 17 Jul 2011 9:32 PM, "Grant" <emailgrant@×××××.com |
| 8 | >> <mailto:emailgrant@×××××.com>> wrote: |
| 9 | >> |
| 10 | >> My crontab deletes all files of a certain type in a certain folder |
| 11 | |
| 12 | Okay, everyone, back away slowly from this post and then delete it |
| 13 | from your cache. The *real* Alan McKinnon does not top post. |
| Subject | Author |
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| Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Any way around "Argument list too long"? | Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> |
| Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Any way around "Argument list too long"? | Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> |