24 Jan
2010
24 Jan
'10
1:21 a.m.
Robert Heller wrote:
At Sat, 23 Jan 2010 12:43:40 +0000 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
Just curious. What is the difference between the command above and "find <numble> -exec rm -f {} ;" ?
The command "find <mumble> -exec rm -f {} ;" collects ALL of the names "find <numble>" as a single command line, which in your case is too large for the shell to deal with.
Gosh, then I guess the manpage for 'find' must be totally wrong where it says:
-exec command ; ... The specified command is run once for each matched file.
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