[CentOS] Deleting Files
Thomas Johansson
thomasj at isy.liu.se
Wed Jun 20 10:23:39 UTC 2012
On 2012-06-20 02:11, Diego Sanchez wrote:
> find /whe/re -mtime +2 -exec echo {} \;
>
> If you get "Argument list too long" error, you can use
>
> find . -name "*" -print | xargs rm
>
Be very careful using that line!
If you have files or directories with whitespace or other special items
in the name it can produce very unexpected behavior. In the case of
whitespaces in filenames a better choise is to use
find . -name '...' -print0 | xargs -0 rm
Look at the man pages for find and xargs for more information.
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