[CentOS] The directory that I am trying to clean up is huge
Robert Nichols
rnicholsNOSPAM at comcast.net
Sun Jan 24 01:21:58 UTC 2010
Robert Heller wrote:
> At Sat, 23 Jan 2010 12:43:40 +0000 CentOS mailing list <centos at 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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