[olug] Unix Tip: DEALING WITH TOO MANY FILES

[Brian Roberson]

while it does not directly answer your question - shell expansion is always
an option

example:
#################
cd /some/dir
rm *
if [ $? != "0" ] ; then
rm [a-g]*
rm [h-z]*
rm [0-5]*
rm [6-9]*
fi
#################


not very elaborate... but you get the idea.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Quinn Coldiron" <qcoldir at nmhs.org>
To: "Omaha Linux User Group" <olug at olug.org>
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 1:56 PM
Subject: Re: [olug] Unix Tip: DEALING WITH TOO MANY FILES


> 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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> > Unix Tip 1906 - March 21, 2003
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> >
> > DEALING WITH TOO MANY FILES
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > what would you do?
> >
> > Well you can do the following:
> >
> > $ls |xargs grep "ABC"
> >
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