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Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 12:36 pm Post subject: Deleting a ton of files

I am trying to delete around 1 million pictures from a folder, and I am doing a
rm *.jpg -f

and I am receiving the following error

-bash: //bin/rm: Argument list too long

Is there a way to get around this and delete all the files?

This is the first time I have ever seen this error before, so I am a little confused. And yes the pictures are already broken into sub-folders, this just happens to be a rather large sub-folder.

Butt Sniffer Joined: 26 Aug 2004 Posts: 1617

use rm -R

Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 9:20 am Post subject:

Sweet I will give it a try as soon as I get my server back up and running, it crashed yesterday. And I only have today to rebuild it before my project is due, Yay. Rolling Eyes

Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 6:14 pm Post subject:

Whenever i cleanup my snort log directory i always get that.. running

(from bash shell) (be sure to be inside the directory to be pruned.)
for ls in *.jpg; do; rm -f $ls; done

does the trick.

Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 7:56 am Post subject:

soup4you2 wrote:
Whenever i cleanup my snort log directory i always get that.. running

(from bash shell) (be sure to be inside the directory to be pruned.)
for ls in *.jpg; do; rm -f $ls; done

does the trick.

I just checked back in here, didn't realize someone else responded.

Thanks that is a good idea soup4you2. I didn't even think to write a little awk script to do it for me.