Jim Thompson wrote:
Clifton Royston wrote:
On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 09:23:54AM -1000, 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'
...
All the files start with mgetty. I would like to prserve the other
files in
the directory and the directories below /var/log
ls | grep '^mgetty' | perl -nle 'unlink;'
find . -name 'mgetty*' -maxdepth 1 -print | perl -nle 'unlink;'
find . -name 'mgetty*' -maxdepth 1 -print | xargs rm
... and numerous variations you can probably think of now that you've
got the idea. Just avoid anything which requires the shell to do
globbing and you'll be fine.
or cut down on the amount of globbing that the shell does in any one
pass.
If all the files end in a number, (and the numbers are well-distributed)
#!/bin/bash
i="0"
while [ $i -le 9 ]
do
echo mgetty*$i | xargs rm -f
i=$[$i+1]
done
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see how simple that was? DUH!!! :) You're KILLIN' ME Jim!!! : )
