On Oct 17, 2008, at 7:58 PM, thad wrote:
Satchel Paige - "Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you."
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 4:36 AM, Laurent Wandrebeck
<l.wandrebeck@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
2008/10/17 Jussi Hirvi <greenspot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
Since when is there a limit in how long directory listings CentOS
can show
(ls), or how large directories can be removed (rm). It is really
annoying to
say, for example
rm -rf /var/amavis/tmp
and get only "argument list too long" as feedback.
Is there a way to go round this problem?
I have CentOS 5.2.
- Jussi
try something like:
for i in /var/amavis/tmp/*
do
rm -rf $i
done
it should be:
for i in `ls /var/amavis/tmp`
do
rm $i
done
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Taking into account the valid objections others have mentioned, such
as problems of embedded whitespace in names, rm -rf $i and rm $i above
are not the same.
Even if there are no directories under the /var/amavis/tmp/, depending
on aliases, etc, rm $i may prompt you for confirmation. the other
will go ahead and do the remove if you have permission to do it (or at
least the -f).
The -r for files is unnecessary, and offends me when I see people do
it, but doesn't really cause any harm :)
I personally either rm -rf directory, and recreate the directory if
necessary, or do a find /var/amavis/tmp -type f ... because of
experience through the years with too long of command lines. Unixes
in the past had even smaller limits. xargs most frequently, and if
things fail, I may just do -exec rm -f {} \; on the find.
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