Victor Shnayder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > I have managed to runout of inodes on a partition du to a buggy routine.
> >
> > I know what I want to delete, but when I do rm -f * in the problem
> > directory it comes back with "Argument list too long"
> >
> > Can anyone think of a way around this one?
>
> Either use xargs (man xargs), or just do rm -f a*;rm -f b*;rm -f
> c*......
Hm. I guess this is supposed to work then?
ls | xargs rm
For some reason, the function of xargs will not sink into my
head... I suspect that it's man page is a good argument
against man pages in general, but I have to understand what
it does better before I can tell if I'm just being thick.
Anyway, this would also do it:
cd <problem_area>
find . -type f -exec rm {} \;
Note, this deletes all files recursively below the problem location.
If that's not the Right Thing, I guess you'd need to play
with something like the -maxdepth option.
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