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Date:      Fri, 27 Jan 2006 16:46:26 -0800 (PST)
From:      Philip Hallstrom <freebsd@philip.pjkh.com>
To:        "FlashWebHost.com" <flashweb@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: rm - Argument list too long
Message-ID:  <20060127164522.T23397@wolf.pjkh.com>
In-Reply-To: <927ad6550601271534r17a6ddb2jd90b930f744d170f@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <927ad6550601271534r17a6ddb2jd90b930f744d170f@mail.gmail.com>

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> I am getting error "Argument list too long." when deleting files from
> /tmp directory.
>
> ------------------------------------
> server20# pwd
> /tmp
> server20# ls -l sess*
> /bin/ls: Argument list too long.
> server20# rm -f sess*
> /bin/rm: Argument list too long.
> server20#
> ------------------------------------
>
> Any idea how to correct this ?

find /tmp -type f -name 'sess*' -delete

Probably worth adding a "-mtime +1" in there to only delete files that 
haven't been modified in 1 day...

-philip



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