[Linux-disciples] rm: invalid argument

Adam Rosi-Kessel adam at rosi-kessel.org
Thu Aug 25 18:47:43 EDT 2011


What difference, if any, between servers? Generally Cygwin path should put cyg commands ahead of windows/DOS ones. Did you try putting single quotes around the {}?

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On Aug 25, 2011, at 5:39 PM, Jamie Forrest <jamie at jamieforrest.com> wrote:

> This is a bit off topic because I am using gnuwin32 on Windows Server 2003 SP2, but I figured people here might be able to help. I've written a find command to find all xml files in a certain directory that are older than 20 minutes, and delete them. Here's the command:
> 
> C:\gnuwin32\GetGnuWin32\gnuwin32\bin\find.exe /mydir/*.xml -mmin +20 -exec rm -f {} \ ;
> 
> This is working fine on 2 of my 3 servers. On the third server, I am getting this error over and over (likely on every file in the directory):
> 
> C:\gnuwin32\GetGnuWin32\gnuwin32\bin\find.exe: rm: Invalid argument
> C:\gnuwin32\GetGnuWin32\gnuwin32\bin\find.exe: error waiting for rm: No child processes
> 
> Google hasn't been much help. Do you guys have any leads? (FYI the reason I am calling the full path on find.exe is because the default "find" command points to the dos "find" command, and I don't want to mess with the PATH to fix this.)
> 
> Thanks!
> Jamie
> 
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