On Sun, 17 Jul 2011 12:32:42 -0700, Grant wrote about [gentoo-user] Any way around "Argument list too long"?:
> My crontab deletes all files of a certain type in a certain folder > with yesterday's date in the filename. It usually executes but > sometimes fails with: > > /bin/rm: Argument list too long > > What would you do about this? Use find with the -delete option. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
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