From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Any way around "Argument list too long"?
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 19:42:30 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110717194230.GC3232@acm.acm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN0CFw2H0KVHbHtL-dzNtgi3KraB7vO+RqhYmc08w_Jv4tFWqg@mail.gmail.com>
Hi, Grant.
On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 12:32:42PM -0700, Grant wrote:
> My crontab deletes all files of a certain type in a certain folder
> with yesterday's date in the filename. It usually executes but
> sometimes fails with:
> /bin/rm: Argument list too long
> What would you do about this?
Use xargs - in place of
/bin/rm lots of files ......
Use
Lots_of_file_names | xargs rm
. xargs then calls rm several times with batches of filenames each time.
xargs is a standard Unix command.
> - Grant
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-17 19:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-17 19:32 [gentoo-user] Any way around "Argument list too long"? Grant
2011-07-17 19:42 ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2011-07-17 19:52 ` victor romanchuk
2011-07-17 19:53 ` David W Noon
2011-07-17 23:23 ` Grant
2011-07-17 23:36 ` Michael Mol
2011-07-17 23:37 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-07-18 0:47 ` Grant
2011-07-18 1:05 ` Albert Hopkins
2011-07-18 1:40 ` Grant
2011-07-18 8:48 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-07-18 21:56 ` Grant
2011-07-19 13:58 ` Florian Philipp
2011-07-19 14:24 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-07-19 18:24 ` Grant
2011-07-19 19:28 ` David W Noon
2011-07-20 8:54 ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-07-17 21:14 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-07-17 22:06 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2011-07-17 22:31 ` Mick
2011-07-17 22:35 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-07-17 23:16 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-07-17 23:43 ` Alan McKinnon
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2011-07-17 19:54 [gentoo-user] " Pandu Poluan
2011-07-17 21:51 ` Michael Mol
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