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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Any way around "Argument list too long"?
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 00:35:42 +0200
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On Sunday 17 July 2011 15:06:32 walt did opine thusly:
> On 07/17/2011 02:14 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > Are you using wildcards in the arguments to rm ?
> > 
> > Rather use find | xargs or find -exec which are designed to deal
> > with exactly this circumstance.
> > 
> >> On 17 Jul 2011 9:32 PM, "Grant" <emailgrant@gmail.com
> >> <mailto:emailgrant@gmail.com>> wrote:
> >> 
> >> My crontab deletes all files of a certain type in a certain
> >> folder
> 
> Okay, everyone, back away slowly from this post and then delete it
> from your cache.  The *real* Alan McKinnon does not top post.

He does when his ADSL modem craps out and he's forced to use the GMail 
app thingamajigy on his Android phone :-)

Note to self: Put K-9 Mail back on phone for just in case moments like 
this.



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