Are you using wildcards in the arguments to rm ? Rather use find | xargs or find -exec which are designed to deal with exactly this circumstance.
On 17 Jul 2011 9:32 PM, "Grant" <emailgr...@gmail.com> wrote: 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? - Grant
