Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:34:20 -0500 From: Henry Olyer <henry.olyer@gmail.com> To: andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 'rm' Can not delete files Message-ID: <CAE7N2kdmbm_5=c8oNknYQE5HOrvVjtfS4XTGYvxTjEQVbGr-7Q@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20120209032544.GA58560@ozzmosis.com> References: <1237723287.20120207235924@yandex.ru> <4F31A260.20109@infracaninophile.co.uk> <20120207231716.31aa8bc3@gumby.homeunix.com> <20120209032544.GA58560@ozzmosis.com>
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So what do I change if I want to increase the shell's file limit? 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? 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" >
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