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bug#28082: bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long
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Eric Blake |
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bug#28082: bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long |
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Mon, 14 Aug 2017 10:59:23 -0500 |
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On 08/13/2017 11:27 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> $rm jonny*.*
>> bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long
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> The standard mechanism to scale this is to use xargs,
> something like:
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> find . -maxdepth 1 -name 'jonny*.*' -print0 | xargs -r0 rm
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> In any case this is not a limitation imposed by rm.
In fact, we have a FAQ about it:
https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#Argument-list-too-long
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Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266
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- bug#28082: bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long, Jonny Grant, 2017/08/13
- bug#28082: bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long, Paul Eggert, 2017/08/13
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- bug#28082: bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long, Paul Eggert, 2017/08/14
- bug#28082: bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long, Jonny Grant, 2017/08/15
- bug#28082: bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long, Dmitry V. Levin, 2017/08/15
- bug#28082: bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long, L A Walsh, 2017/08/26
- bug#28082: bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long, Jonny Grant, 2017/08/26
bug#28082: bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long, Pádraig Brady, 2017/08/14
- bug#28082: bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long,
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