Comments on: Argument list too long – Workarounds http://damonparker.org/blog/2006/12/28/argument-list-too-long-workarounds/ code / ecommerce / life Sat, 21 Jan 2012 20:11:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: damonp http://damonparker.org/blog/2006/12/28/argument-list-too-long-workarounds/#comment-17440 damonp Mon, 22 Jan 2007 17:41:15 +0000 http://damonparker.org/blog/2006/12/28/argument-list-too-long-workarounds/#comment-17440 The ls way is clean, but I like using find so you can only select certain messages. With my SPAM mailbox, I can delete messages that are older than a specified period of time (ie. 14 days below). [code lang="bash"]find . -mtime 14 -print0 | xargs -0 rm[/code] The ls way is clean, but I like using find so you can only select certain messages. With my SPAM mailbox, I can delete messages that are older than a specified period of time (ie. 14 days below).

[code lang="bash"]find . -mtime 14 -print0 | xargs -0 rm[/code]

]]> By: Chris http://damonparker.org/blog/2006/12/28/argument-list-too-long-workarounds/#comment-16871 Chris Sun, 07 Jan 2007 20:24:43 +0000 http://damonparker.org/blog/2006/12/28/argument-list-too-long-workarounds/#comment-16871 Much better than the for-loop: ls | while read f; do rm $f; done Much better than the for-loop:

ls | while read f; do rm $f; done

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