rm argument list too long find and xargs

teddymills teddy-5sHjOODPK7E at public.gmane.org
Mon Apr 12 16:29:08 UTC 2010


I was trying to rm more than 1024 files at one time (old logs)
and rm returned a strange error. "Argument list too long"

so find and xargs to the rescue..
find . -name 'myDEBUG*.log' | xargs rm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xargs
uname -a shows a kernel less than 2.6.23



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