Re: [Q] Delete file get "parameter too long"

From: Robert Miller (rmiller_at_SMUD.ORG)
Date: 04/27/04

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    I have also recently used regular expressions - 'rm [a-f]*;rm [g-m]*;rm [n-z]*;rm [A-F]*', etc... which also works - I do like the for loop idea though, it's much easier :)

    --rm

    -----Original Message-----
    From: IBM AIX Discussion List [mailto:aix-l@Princeton.EDU]On Behalf Of
    Harvey, Bruce T.
    Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 5:45 AM
    To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
    Subject: Re: [Q] Delete file get "parameter too long"

    1. Use the find command. But be absolutely certain either the directory
    you specify or the directory you're in. This would als remove files in
    lower directories, though, so be careful.

            Ex: find /mydir -type f -name "*somepattern*" -exec rm -f {} \;
    -print

    2. List the files into a temporary file, create a 'for' loop or 'while
    read' loop, then remove one at a time.

            Ex: ls >/tmp/myfile
                 for f in `cat /tmp/myfile`
                 do
                      rm -f $f
                 done

                 -or-

                 cat /tmp/myfile | while read f
                 do
                      rm -f $f
                 done

    Bruce T. Harvey
    Legg Mason Wood Walker, Inc.
    Corporate Technology - Mgr. UNIX Engineering
    11155 Red Run Blvd - Owings Mills, MD 21117-3256
    (410) 580-7383 -------- BTHarvey@LeggMason.com
    -----------------------------------------------------------

    -----Original Message-----
    From: bbb bb [mailto:mccux1@HOTMAIL.COM]
    Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 8:29 AM
    To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
    Subject: [Q] Delete file get "parameter too long"

    We have AIX 4.3.3 on RS6000. I tried to delte files and get "parameter too
    long". I need change to that directory to delete it.
    Does anyone know why and how to fix it?

    The procedures I do:

    $ rm /user1/dir1/*
    ksh: /usr/bin/rm: 0403-027 The parameter list is too long.
    $ ls -al /user1/dir1/*|wc -l
    ksh: /usr/bin/ls: 0403-027 The parameter list is too long.
           0
    $ cd /user1/dir1
    $ ls -lt|wc -l
        1042
    $ rm *
    $ ls -al
    total 232
    drwxrwxrwx 2 informix sys 22016 Apr 27 07:00 .
    drwxrwsrwx 16 informix sys 90624 Apr 27 06:01 ..

    Thanks.

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