On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 11:24:55 -0700, Grant wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Any way around "Argument list too long"?:
[snip] > > The double dash will prevent mv from interpreting weird file names > > like "-h" as parameters. Just about every standard GNU tool > > supports this. > > Does that apply to a command like this: > > /usr/bin/find /home/user -type f -name "*-`/bin/date -d 'yesterday' > +\%Y\%m\%d`*.jpg" -delete No. The find command is far too complicated for such a simple mechanism to make sense. Stopping the parser on such a character sequence has the potential for disaster. > Maybe it should be changed to this: > > /usr/bin/find /home/user -type f -name -- "*-`/bin/date -d 'yesterday' > +\%Y\%m\%d`*.jpg" -delete If you wish to delete JPEG files that are a day or more old, you might be better off using the ctime field in the directory entry: find /home/user -daystart -ctime 0 -type f -name \*.jpg -delete To see which files would be deleted, run the above command with -delete replaced by -print. Note also that the "back-quote" notation for command sub-shells has been deprecated since about 1993. See: http://compute.cnr.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/man-cgi?ksh+1 and scroll down to the bottom of page 11. You are better off using the more modern $(command ...) notation. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
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