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

[Robert Nichols <rnicholsNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Robert Heller wrote:
> At Sat, 23 Jan 2010 12:43:40 +0000 CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> Just curious. What is the difference between the command above and "find 
>> <numble> -exec rm -f {} \;" ?
> 
> The command "find <mumble> -exec rm -f {} \;" collects ALL of the names
> "find <numble>" as a single command line, which in your case is too
> large for the shell to deal with.

Gosh, then I guess the manpage for 'find' must be totally wrong where it
says:

        -exec command ;
               ...
               The specified command is run once for each matched file.

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