[Linux-disciples] rm: invalid argument

[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

Try forcing the path to rm

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On Aug 25, 2011, at 7:30 PM, Jamie Forrest <jamie at jamieforrest.com> wrote:

> I'll try the xargs -i. I'd tried inserting echo before the rm and ended up getting the same error as the rm, but this time it was happening on the echo.
> 
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> On Aug 25, 2011, at 7:18 PM, Adam Rosi-Kessel <adam at rosi-kessel.org> wrote:
> 
>> 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
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>>> 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
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>>>> 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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