Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 01:51:59 +1000 From: Da Rock <freebsd-questions@herveybayaustralia.com.au> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 'rm' Can not delete files Message-ID: <4F353D1F.3020100@herveybayaustralia.com.au> In-Reply-To: <CAE7N2kdmbm_5=c8oNknYQE5HOrvVjtfS4XTGYvxTjEQVbGr-7Q@mail.gmail.com> References: <1237723287.20120207235924@yandex.ru> <4F31A260.20109@infracaninophile.co.uk> <20120207231716.31aa8bc3@gumby.homeunix.com> <20120209032544.GA58560@ozzmosis.com> <CAE7N2kdmbm_5=c8oNknYQE5HOrvVjtfS4XTGYvxTjEQVbGr-7Q@mail.gmail.com>
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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<mail@ozzmosis.com> wrote: > >> On Tue 2012-02-07 23:17:16 UTC+0000, RW (rwmaillists@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 >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to " >> freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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