From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QiZsM-0006jx-9K for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 22:31:50 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F093421C2BE; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 22:31:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4A0D21C215 for ; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 22:30:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyh22 with SMTP id 22so1225527wyh.40 for ; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 15:30:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=qINo1ZdLT/HiV1al9ArmbzFR/oAJQqiAnlZpUKYVVbA=; b=HwOh9mxaXXKmHy/kNJrfrezFDZ/lm6ujSxgw5euYBG4S7hAFNxcI63Al+7TTiZ5Svi S3DHSqoEgaG0oACYd/E9MNXuL9vf7EDbx0wC/VkDQ0JiFj4TqvmwNcCwz4KeJTlG40d+ tv+ar2WEJzPGRrqvOLZpvEN6xb6/5eJb5LJtQ= Received: by 10.227.29.150 with SMTP id q22mr4792926wbc.78.1310941849723; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 15:30:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dell_xps.localnet (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id eo18sm2937378wbb.63.2011.07.17.15.30.46 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 17 Jul 2011 15:30:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Any way around "Argument list too long"? Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 23:31:10 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/2.6.38-gentoo-r6; KDE/4.6.3; x86_64; ; ) References: In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2305999.Q40KA0EE3t"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201107172331.25668.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 0f2a3656a01a5d8ef33b89dd9600e377 --nextPart2305999.Q40KA0EE3t Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sunday 17 Jul 2011 23:06:32 walt wrote: > On 07/17/2011 02:14 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Are you using wildcards in the arguments to rm ? > >=20 > > Rather use find | xargs or find -exec which are designed to deal with > > exactly this circumstance. > >=20 > >> On 17 Jul 2011 9:32 PM, "Grant" >> > wrote: > >>=20 > >> My crontab deletes all files of a certain type in a certain folder >=20 > Okay, everyone, back away slowly from this post and then delete it > from your cache. The *real* Alan McKinnon does not top post. Ha, ha! Nor does he use HTML formatting in his messages! o_O Hmm ... New smartphone or something similar which he hadn't time to hack ye= t? =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart2305999.Q40KA0EE3t Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAk4jYr0ACgkQVTDTR3kpaLYovwCfXDQ4dKQG8Z0jQq6UU17OS6S5 nbgAnA6jMVu5p0h2rt1nj1RyLlDEaXyz =sqHu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2305999.Q40KA0EE3t--