Marco Marongiu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Dominic Mitchell wrote:
> >
> > Marco Marongiu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > # You may prefer -mtime instead of -ctime here...
> > > find $CACHEDIR -type f -ctime +$MAXAGE -exec rm -f {} \;
> >
> > This will go much quicker as:
> >
> > find $CACHEDIR -type f -ctime +$MAXAGE -print0 | xargs -0 rm -f
> >
> > That will only run one rm process for every few thousand files. Also,
> > it uses the "-0" options on both sides for safety.
>
> Ok, but it may fail if the resulting command line is too long (and it
> may well be far too long, since cache files have veryverylongfilenames
> :-) That's why I prefer to execute rm in find instead of by mean of
> xargs.
No, it won't. That's why xargs exists. It knows the limit on each
system its built for, so you don't have to.
-Dom
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