Re: rm - Arguments too long
From: Rev. Don Kool (oldno7@comcast.net)
Date: 04/22/03
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Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 18:58:40 -0400 From: "Rev. Don Kool" <oldno7@comcast.net>
cljlk wrote:
> I use rm -r directory, it hang for 3 days, it still could not
> delete the directory. Thus I cd directory and rm *, I got
> "Arguments too long". How do I delete files? A
> can I have other alternation option to remove the directory?
There are as many different ways as there are admins, my friend. Two
that leap to mind would be to use the "find" command with an "-exec rm
{}" option. That would work but it would likely be slow. Depending on
the names of your files, you could attempt to delete them in blocks.
Something like "rm [A-L]*", "rm [M-Z]*", etc... These could be run in
parallel. Of course if you have all these files in there due to some
automatic naming convention that has boatloads of them starting with the
same letter, you'll have to get more creative with what you put in the
square brackets. Good luck.
> Thanks
No problem.
Hope this helps,
Don
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