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Ramachandran Iyer [riyer at kodiaknetworks.com]
Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:26:39 +0530
Hi, I have some 40,000 entries/files in a directory I know there is some combinations or rm & xargs to delete this long list,, I am not getting the exact syntax. Can u pl pass it on,, Rama
Thomas Adam [thomas.adam22 at gmail.com]
Thu, 22 Feb 2007 08:43:14 +0000
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:26:39 +0530 "Ramachandran Iyer" <riyer at kodiaknetworks.com> wrote:
> Hi, > I have some 40,000 entries/files in a directory I know there is some > combinations or rm & xargs to delete this long list,, I am not getting > the exact syntax. > Can u pl pass it on,,
find /some/directory -type f -print0 | xargs -0 rm -f-- Thomas Adam
Ben Okopnik [ben at linuxgazette.net]
Sat, 24 Feb 2007 15:53:03 -0500
On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 12:26:39PM +0530, Ramachandran Iyer wrote:
> > Hi, > > I have some 40,000 entries/files in a directory I know there is some > combinations or rm & xargs to delete this long list,, I am not getting the > exact syntax.
You could always read the man page. It includes examples.
ls|xargs -L 1000 rm
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