[Linux-disciples] delete a whole lot of files

[Karl Sokol]

My fault.  I obviously don't need it to look into .aptitude.  Why is it
trying to anyhow?  I definitely do not want to recursively delete all jpegs.

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


On 2/7/07, Stephen R Laniel <steve at laniels.org> wrote:
>
> 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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Grace and Peace,

Rev. Karl Sokol
Franklin Grove UMC
211 N. Spring
Franklin Grove, IL 61031

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