Use the "find" statement to select the files you want to process (man find
will explain) an then let find execute the mv or rm whatever you need.
Example:
Find . -name *tobedeleted* -exec rm {} \; -print
The -exec will execute something, substituting the {} with the current file
name, the\; ends the execute parameters, -print will print the filename on
the console.
Hope this helps,
Andre
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Subject: [U2] AIX Argument list too long
Hi all.
This is a bit off-topic, but I believe the expertise is here. . .
I have routines that parse through Unix files in a directory and remove
them based on age. If the number of files exceeds some limit I've not been
able to narrow down, I get a response from the scripts that it can't do
the job because there's too many files in the directory.
Does anyone know:
1. what I'm talking about and what causes it?
2. how to solve this through some tunable parameter, preferrably not
requiring a kernel rebuild?
TIA,
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