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23-02-2009, 09:07 PM
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-bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long
Okay I have a folder on my Red Hat server that I want to clean up 2 times a week I know how to add it to the crontab, but I am having an issue removing all these files because when I try to do a rm -rf * I get:
[root@server1 PDF for Output]# rm -rf * -bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long So I was thinking maybe I need to make a script to clean it out, but i don't know how to get around the Argument list too long problem. Any help with this issue would be greatly appreciated. 
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23-02-2009, 10:31 PM
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Use find command along with xargs to get rid of the files
Code:
find /path/to/dir/delete -print0 -iname '*.txt' | xargs -0 /bin/rm -f
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23-02-2009, 11:30 PM
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No rm command should not delete any folder. To select only files add -type f to find command:
Code:
find /path/to/dir/delete -type f -print0 -iname '*.txt' | xargs -0 /bin/rm -f
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