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 1QiX6J-0004ac-RD for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 19:34:04 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5417521C0C5; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 19:33:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ey0-f171.google.com (mail-ey0-f171.google.com [209.85.215.171]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E6DB21C0A3 for ; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 19:32:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eye22 with SMTP id 22so957891eye.2 for ; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 12:32:42 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=Oh77OW6470otbJjKuimPj/jfcsEZa6yxFGj9qz6FUY4=; b=O/13EdTds4jx8EN3fkHkryToLC4t5U2N+PXDMm8VyPawEzd2Nz51WMOwOAqh9OeJTY mOhuAL2Ciw+YRifL1Dq6s4gvtyoK84eJh2AeUVgLDrC4s68LHHQ4IoY8MML100tysT/8 SNs4rYwaEfmWiO5zmyd1QvtF7JaqKqbav5wg0= 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 Received: by 10.14.5.202 with SMTP id 50mr1980906eel.81.1310931162369; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 12:32:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.14.50.203 with HTTP; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 12:32:42 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 12:32:42 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: [gentoo-user] Any way around "Argument list too long"? From: Grant To: Gentoo mailing list Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 21ceb8561ae0bce768b6215801bcd111 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? - Grant