Argument list too long when using RM command
I ran into this issue myself when going to delete a large number of files from a linux drive...
I found the answer here:
http://www.moundalexis.com/archives/000035.php
But the easy answer is this... be very careful and navigate to the location where you want to delete everything and then use this command:
find . -name '*' -print0 | xargs -0 rm
Hope that helps, I know I will use this page to look it up in a few weeks when I forget again.
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posted by mauricio @ 2:36 AM
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1 Comments:
I much nicer way with out the pipe
find /path/to/dir -name "*pattern*" -exec rm {} \;
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