[Linux-disciples] rm: invalid argument

[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

Ah, I meant xargs -i rm '{}' 

It should be only one argument per line. 

You can also try inserting echo before rm in your -exec version and check out that output. 

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On Aug 25, 2011, at 7:08 PM, Jamie Forrest <jamie at jamieforrest.com> wrote:

> Tried that and got argument list too long. 
> 
> Sent from mobile
> 
> On Aug 25, 2011, at 7:00 PM, Adam Rosi-Kessel <adam at rosi-kessel.org> wrote:
> 
>> Try piping into xargs rm instead just as a test. 
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>> On Aug 25, 2011, at 6:56 PM, Jamie Forrest <jamie at jamieforrest.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 6:47 PM, Adam Rosi-Kessel <adam at rosi-kessel.org> wrote:
>>> 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 {}?
>>> 
>>> Yeah, single quotes didn't help. AFAIK the environments are identical.
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 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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