[Linux-disciples] Large argument lists

[Stephen R Laniel]

If you try to do something like 'rm dirName/*' when dirName
contains lots of files, you'll get an error like
'/usr/bin/rm: Argument list too long'. So then you'll need
to do something like

find dirName -mindepth 1 -depth -print0 |xargs -0i rm -R '{}'

If you're writing a script that has to process lots of
directories with many files, you end up having to do this
with every command.

Is there some prepackaged set of scripts that replaces bash
commands with versions like the above that work with large
collections? Or do we just need to write these on our own?

-- 
Stephen R. Laniel
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