rm argument list too long find and xargs

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Mon, 12 Apr 2010, teddymills wrote:

> 
> 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

    There is no need for xargs with recent versions of find:

find . -name 'myDEBUG*.log' -exec rm {} +


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

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