On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, Larry Ozeran wrote:
> Hi all -
>
> [...]
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailman]# rm -f error.*
> bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long
>
> [...]
>
> The idea is that if it can't erase all files "error.1*" because there are too many,
> it calls itself again and tries "error.1.1*", and so forth.
>
> [...]
>
> I read through the bash man page 3 times, but couldn't get enough out of
> it to understand the error message: unexpected Do on line 4. The man
> page said the syntax of the for loop was "for ((exp; exp; exp)); do exp;
> done", which is what I thought I had.
Hi Larry,
Try using xargs like this:
find . -name "error*" | xargs rm
You can also try doing it through the find command like this:
find . -name "error*" -exec rm \{} \;
Finally, if you still want to get your for loop to work, you should write
your for loop like this:
for (( i=1; i<5; i++ )); do
echo $i # sub your own command here
done
Notice there are no dollar signs in the assignment, the comparison, nor
the increment.
HTH,
Foo
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