Comments on: /bin/rm: Argument list too long.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 22:05:53 +0000

To touch on the issue Vinay raised, I had to use the -wholename option on the find command to delete files from multiple directories. The following got rid of all the incomplete files in my audio stream directories quite nicely:

find /usr/local/Streams/ -wholename ‘*/incomplete/*’ -print0 | xargs -0 rm -f

By: Sadanand

Sadanand — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 10:56:07 +0000

This helped me a lot. Thanks

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 18:45:46 +0000

Dipu, exec works because find passes the filenames one at a time.

By: Dipu

Dipu — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 19:50:46 +0000

I feel using exec from find command is bound to fail since the argument list will be too long for it to handle.

From somewhere else on net.

getconf ARG_MAX gives the maximum number of arguments that commands can take…

By: Steven Roddis

Steven Roddis — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 03:10:41 +0000

Yes, but it won’t delete the directories.

By: Vinay

Vinay — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 06:59:16 +0000

Hi,

i want to delete all webalizer stats of my server. will this command work for this:

find . -name ‘/home/*/tmp/webalizer/*’ | xargs rm

Please let me know.

Regards,

Vinay

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 06:32:24 +0000

find . -name ‘11*’ -exec rm “{}” \;