On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 10:33:13PM -0700, Larry Ozeran wrote: > Thanks for the great discussion. I really appreciate everyone's ideas. > Unfortunately, it appears that find is using similar expansion of the * leading to > the same error. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailman]# find -iname \erro*.[1-4].[1-4] -print0 | xargs -r0 rm -f > bash: /usr/bin/find: Argument list too long > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailman]# find -iname \erro*.[1-4] -print0 | xargs -r0 rm -f > bash: /usr/bin/find: Argument list too long
You *need* to put the pattern in quotes, because otherwise the shell
will perform wildcard expansion just the same way it was doing for the
rm command. Try
find -iname 'erro*.[1-4].[1-4]' -print0 | xargs -r0 rm -f
This should stop the nasty expansion.
This was demonstrated implicitly before, as Foo Lim said:
> >
> >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 \{} \;
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