On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Joe Brenner wrote:
>Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 20:07:32 -0700
>From: Joe Brenner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: rm problem
>
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>Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> Joe Brenner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Tue, 29 Aug 2000 [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?
Use th
At 20:07 -0700 28 Aug 2000, Joe Brenner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I guess what bothers me most is that there doesn't seem to
> be any placeholder for where the filename is going to go.
> Like what if you don't want the filename at the end of the
> command line? Then you revert back to find wit
Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Joe Brenner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > For some reason, the function of xargs will not sink into my
> > head...
>
> What xargs does is take a list of things on standard input (usually
> files) and run the command specified, putting as many of t
>
> 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?
dir | xargs --max-lines=300 rm -f
or some
Joe Brenner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> For some reason, the function of xargs will not sink into my
> head...
What xargs does is take a list of things on standard input (usually
files) and run the command specified, putting as many of those files
(or whatever) on each command line, until the
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"
> >
> >
[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 (
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?
Kevin
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