fred smith wrote:
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 03:14:54AM -0800, John Doe wrote:
From: Anas Alnaffar a.alnaffar@tijaritelecom.com
I tried to run this command find -name "*.access*" -mtime +2 -exec rm {} ; and I have same error message
How many "*.access*" are there...?
JD
if there are so many that you're finding the previously suggested techniques difficult to use, you can try the brute-force I sometimes use...
It actually shouldn't matter. As long as the wildcards are quoted on the command line, you shouldn't get an error from too many files. I suspect the command that was typed wasn't exactly what is shown above.