[Linux-disciples] rm: invalid argument

[Jamie Forrest]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 6:48 PM, Adam Rosi-Kessel <adam at rosi-kessel.org>wrote:

> Also what if you run without exec? See what args are actually returned.
>

The args returned look ok. I even tried running rm directly on what find is
returning, and that works fine.


> 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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