fred smith wrote: > On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 03:14:54AM -0800, John Doe wrote: >> From: Anas Alnaffar <a.alnaffar at 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. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com