Re: [LUAU] How do you delete over 500,000 files in a directory

On 11/3/05, Hawaii Linux Institute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric Hattemer wrote: Ok, I wonder if I'm the only one who immediately read this as what I thought it should have been, then didn't get the criticism. The typo should have read for i in m*; do rm $i; done; -Eric Hattemer

[LUAU] How do you delete over 500,000 files in a directory

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

Re: [LUAU] How do you delete over 500,000 files in a directory

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

Re: [LUAU] How do you delete over 500,000 files in a directory

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

[LUAU] How do you delete over 500,000 files in a directory

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

Re: [LUAU] How do you delete over 500,000 files in a directory

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

Re: [LUAU] How do you delete over 500,000 files in a directory

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

Re: [LUAU] How do you delete over 500,000 files in a directory

Jim Thompson wrote: 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 Didn't realize you already answered the

Re: [LUAU] How do you delete over 500,000 files in a directory

find . -name 'mgetty*' -maxdepth 1 -print | xargs rm Also beware of filenames with spaces when using xargs. If you know none of the files have spaces, then the above should work fine for you. If you aren't sure something like: find . -name '*mgetty*' -print0 |xargs -0 rm will do what

Re: [LUAU] How do you delete over 500,000 files in a directory

Tim Newsham wrote: You'd think that by 2005, arbitrary length command lines wouldn't be an issue (assuming they could all fit in memory, or kmem, or some suitable place). I wonder if anyone has made a more up-to-date unix like system that fixes these warbles.. The UNIX operating system

Re: [LUAU] How do you delete over 500,000 files in a directory

Jim Thompson wrote: Hawaii Linux Institute wrote: ne at a time, I am sure everyone here knows how to do this. For example: for i in m*; do rm m*; done still requires bash to glob all 500,000 files. Fails for the same reaons. note my error here. Bash is OK globbing 500,000 files

Re: [LUAU] How do you delete over 500,000 files in a directory

You'd think that by 2005, arbitrary length command lines wouldn't be an issue [...] Note that the expansion itself is no problem, rather it's almost always an exec(2) system call which fails returning E2BIG. Remember that all that crap has to be copied into kernel space for an exec [...]

Re: [LUAU] How do you delete over 500,000 files in a directory

Tim Newsham wrote: You'd think that by 2005, arbitrary length command lines wouldn't be an issue [...] Note that the expansion itself is no problem, rather it's almost always an exec(2) system call which fails returning E2BIG. Remember that all that crap has to be copied into kernel space

Re: [LUAU] How do you delete over 500,000 files in a directory

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

Re: [LUAU] How do you delete over 500,000 files in a directory

Jim Thompson wrote: Hawaii Linux Institute wrote: for i in m*; do rm m*; done still requires bash to glob all 500,000 files. Fails for the same reaons. Ok, I wonder if I'm the only one who immediately read this as what I thought it should have been, then didn't get the criticism.

Re: [LUAU] How do you delete over 500,000 files in a directory

Eric Hattemer wrote: Ok, I wonder if I'm the only one who immediately read this as what I thought it should have been, then didn't get the criticism. The typo should have read for i in m*; do rm $i; done; -Eric Hattemer You're exactly right. Wayne