[Linux-disciples] delete a whole lot of files

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 12:26:48PM -0600, Karl Sokol wrote:
> church at ubuntu:~$ sudo find /home/church -iname '*.jpg' -print0 |xargs -i0 rm '
> {}'
> Password:
> xargs: argument line too long

It's likely that the sudo is messing you up. Do you need to
be running sudo? If you don't, take it out; if you do, do

sudo sh -c "find /home/church -iname '*.jpg' -print0 |xargs -i0 rm '{}'"

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