--- "Burke, Thomas G." <tg.burke@xxxxxxx> wrote: > I delete them by character... e.g. rm -rf *1.tmp, rm -rf *2.tmp, and > so on. Don't know of any other way to do it. - although I wrote a > little C program once to handle it for me. It's a shell limitation. There's a utility, "xargs" that will help work around this. man xargs > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Chris > Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 1:19 PM > To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Large number of files in single directory > > > > There seems to be a filesystem limitation on most flavors of Linux > I've > worked on, in terms of a max number of files in a single directory - > before > tools like tar, gzip, rm, mv, cp and others stop working properly. > For > example, I have some users that have 2000+ files in a single > directory (some > as many as 10,000 files) and trying to tar these directories is > always > coming up with "argument list too long." > > Is there a way for tar and these other tools to "see" all these files > and > process them as normal? I recall once I had to resort to something > like > "find . -print | xargs rm -fr" to remove thousands of files from a > single > directory. Is doing something similar but replacing "rm" with "tar" > the > only way to make this work, or does tar have some sort of command > line > switch (I couldn't find one) to work with extremely long argument > lists? > > Chris > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > He who laughs last thinks slowest. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
