[Linux-disciples] delete a whole lot of files

[Karl Sokol]

Thanks, but I am still not getting very far.  I would just delete the files
in chunks with nautilus, but it takes up so much cpu to open /home/church
that it all but crashes.

church at ubuntu:~$ find /home/church -iname '*.jpg' -print0 |xargs -i0 echo rm
"{}"
find: /home/church/.aptitude: Permission denied
xargs: argument line too long
church at ubuntu:~$ find /home/church/ -iname '*.jpg' \ -exec cp '{}'
/home/church/jpg ';'
find: paths must precede expression
Usage: find [-H] [-L] [-P] [path...] [expression]
church at ubuntu:~$


On 2/7/07, Adam Rosi-Kessel <adam at rosi-kessel.org> wrote:
>
> First, I would really recommend not doing any massive operations with
> rm. In fact, you might just try an "echo" first to see what it's going
> to do, e.g.,:
>
> find /home/church -iname '*.jpg' -print0 |xargs -i0 echo rm "{}"
>
> and make sure the output is as desired. (You probably want to pipe the
> whole thing into less if there are > 100,000 files).
>
> Second, your .aptitude is under your home directory, and apparently was
> created when running as sudo, hence the owner is root:root. find wants
> to look in there because you're starting at that directory, but can't
> when you aren't root. You could just 'chown -R church:church
> /home/church/.aptitude', which would fix the permission denied error,
> but has nothing to do with what you're trying to accomplish.
>
> Third, I'm not sure why you're getting the argument too long error, but
> try this instead:
>
> find /home/church/(whatever directory) -iname '*.jpg' \
>                 -exec cp '{}' /home/church/(some other directory) ';'
>
> On 2/7/2007 1:35 PM, Karl Sokol wrote:
> > 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
> > <mailto: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
> >     '{}'"
> >
> >     --
> >     Stephen R. Laniel
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Grace and Peace,

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

If you have a talent, that's God's gift to you. If you use that talent,
that's your gift to God.

                     --
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