[Linux-disciples] delete a whole lot of files

[Karl Sokol]

church at ubuntu:~$ sudo find /home/church -iname '*.jpg' -print0 |xargs -i0 rm
'{}'
Password:
xargs: argument line too long
church at ubuntu:~$


On 2/7/07, Adam Rosi-Kessel <adam at rosi-kessel.org> wrote:
>
> On 2/7/2007 1:19 PM, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 01:16:22PM -0500, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote:
> >> I think you would need
> >>
> >> find /home/church -iname '*.jpg' -print0 -exec '{}' rm \;
> >
> > Sorry, what I meant to write was
> >
> > find /home/church -iname '*.jpg' -print0 |xargs -0 rm
>
> Oh, right. You don't want to do both -exec and -print (or -print0).
>
> I would suggest the slight modification:
>
> find /home/church -iname '*.jpg' -print0 |xargs -i0 rm '{}'
>
> although in this case I don't think it would make any difference.
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