Re: The directory that I am trying to clean up is huge

["Marcelo M. Garcia" <marcelo.maia.garcia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Robert Heller wrote:
> At Sat, 23 Jan 2010 15:23:58 +0300 CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> Content-Language: en-us
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>> The directory that I am trying to clean up is huge . every time get this
>> error msg 
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>>  
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>> -bash: /usr/bin/find: Argument list too long
> 
> 'man xargs'
> 
> find <mumble> -print | xargs rm 
> 
Hi

Just curious. What is the difference between the command above and "find 
<numble> -exec rm -f {} \;" ?

Thanks

mg.

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