On 02/11/12 01:34, Henry Olyer wrote:
So what do I change if I want to increase the shell's file limit?
I don't think you can. It's not a shell limit. It's a limit to the
number of arguments the command itself will take. As said, the shell
expands '*' to a list of files as the argument, and rm is limited to the
number of arguments it will parse.
I use bash 4.
And by the way, for me, part of the normal installation of a new FBSD box
is to make certain changes. For example, for "uniq -c" I use "%06" instead
of "%d" because this way I can sort the output. Things like that.
I never learned a shell language. I suppose no one is as dumb as someone
who choose's not to learn, so, what's the right one. csh?, because I do a
lot of scientific work?, or should I be looking at another?
There's not really much difference in this factor for shell types; as
for changes you'd have to hack the command's (say rm) code.
As mentioned, I'd use the find -delete combination.
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:25 PM, andrew clarke<m...@ozzmosis.com> wrote:
On Tue 2012-02-07 23:17:16 UTC+0000, RW (rwmailli...@googlemail.com)
wrote:
On Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:14:56 +0000
Matthew Seaman wrote:
ls -1 | xargs rm
but be aware that that wont work for filenames with spaces.
In addition, I don't believe it solves the OP's initial problem of the
argument list being too long! You'd probably need to use the xargs -n
switch here.
The above will also try to 'rm' directories, which won't work.
Instead I would use 'find':
find . -type f -depth 1 -delete
This will also work with filenames with spaces.
Or the scenic route, using xargs, with one rm per file (slower):
find . -type f -depth 1 -print0 | xargs -n1 -0 rm -f
(The "scenic route" is useful if you want to do something else with
the files instead of deleting them with rm.)
Regards
Andrew
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