[olug] Unix Tip: DEALING WITH TOO MANY FILES

[Quinn Coldiron]

One of the many problems I have with a certain package I support on AIX
is that they dump and ton and a half of files into a single directory,
and I can't change that.  I need to clean that out periodically and rm *
gives me the same error.  Recursively removing the directory and then
rebuilding the directory is not an option, so I made a shell script to
do this:

#!/bin/sh
for i in `ls -1`
do
rm $i
done

Does somebody know of a better way?

Quinn



On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 13:24, Unix Guru Universe wrote:
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> DEALING WITH TOO MANY FILES
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> In case there are too many files in a 
> particular directory  and you try doing 
> 
> $ grep "ABC" *
> 
> And it fails saying 
> ksh: /usr/bin/find: 0403-027 The parameter list is too long.
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> what would you do?
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> Well you can do the following:
> 
> $ls |xargs grep "ABC"
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Quinn P. Coldiron
Cerner Technical Coordinator
Nebraska Methodist Hospital
402-354-1619
qcoldir at nmhs.org