[CentOS] The directory that I am trying to clean up is huge
Marcelo M. Garcia
marcelo.maia.garcia at googlemail.com
Sat Jan 23 12:43:40 UTC 2010
Robert Heller wrote:
> At Sat, 23 Jan 2010 15:23:58 +0300 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote:
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>> The directory that I am trying to clean up is huge . every time get this
>> error msg
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>> -bash: /usr/bin/find: Argument list too long
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> 'man xargs'
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> find <mumble> -print | xargs rm
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Hi
Just curious. What is the difference between the command above and "find
<numble> -exec rm -f {} \;" ?
Thanks
mg.
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