Arguments too long

[sraj142]

Hi All,
I wanted to delete all the files in my /testdir. There are so many (10000000 nos) of files in the directory. I have tried the find & rm command, but "Arguments too long".
Earlier once I have seen a beutiful script here using for loop to delete all files in such case. Can anybody help me to find the script please ?

Regards - Subharaj

 

[khalidaaa]

Have you tried this find command?

find . -name "*" -exec rm {} \;

It usually work!

The other way to do the same is to change the environment variable ncargs!

One nice comment can be found in here about ncargs:

http://unix.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups/comp.unix.aix/2004-01/0372.html

Regards,
Khalid

 

[khalidaaa]

Maybe that's what you are looking for?

http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=976970

Regards,
Khalid

 

[KenCunningham]

One word of caution. Be wary of using find . as above, and particularly with wildcards. Whilst it's perfectly valid, for safety, ensure that you're deleting from the correct directory by specifying the path to in in place of the period. People have been burned by that in the past (can you guess that I'm one of those people!).

I want to be good, is that not enough?