[oclug] WEIRD!!

[Jon Earle]

On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, Raj wrote:

> On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 02:30:48PM -0400, Jon Earle wrote:
> > > Anyone have any idea what caused these things to appear?  And how can I
> > > (easily) delete 270k files... rm mgetty* says the arg list is too long!
> >
> > for i in mgetty*; do rm $i; done should do the trick.  it will take a while
> > though.  a better alternative would probably be:
> >
> > echo mgetty* | xargs rm
>
> my preferred way is
>
> find mgetty* -exec rm {} \;

find complained of too many args.  :)

I've executed Mathew's loop suggestion... it's not yet returned, so I
presume it's working.  :)

Thank you for your thoughts!

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Jon Earle
Software Developer / Network Manager
Specializing in Open Source Software Solutions
http://kronos.honk.org/~earlej/