Matt Darnell wrote:
Aloha,
We have a box with over 500,000 files in a direcotry. If I try 'rm m*' I get
an error, something like 'too many arguments'
I think someone else in this situation had a method of switching to another
shell, bash is default.
All the files start with mgetty. I would like to prserve the other files in
the directory and the directories below /var/log
Anyone have any ideas?
Aloha,
Matt
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From the 'find' man page:
EXAMPLES
find /tmp -name core -type f -print | xargs /bin/rm -f
Find files named core in or below the directory /tmp and
delete them.
Note that this will work incorrectly if there are any
filenames con-
taining newlines, single or double quotes, or spaces.
find /tmp -name core -type f -print0 | xargs -0 /bin/rm -f
Find files named core in or below the directory /tmp and
delete them,
processing filenames in such a way that file or directory
names con-
taining single or double quotes, spaces or newlines are
correctly han-
dled. The -name test comes before the -type test in order to
avoid
having to call stat(2) on every file.
It is also in the xargs man page.
Jon
