[Linux-disciples] rm: invalid argument

[Jamie Forrest]

I did set the path variable but the gnuwin stuff was at the end of the path. The windows find.exe was conflicting with the gnuwin find.exe but rm was working fine on its own with gnuwin at the end of the path. 

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On Aug 25, 2011, at 8:19 PM, Adam Rosi-Kessel <adam at rosi-kessel.org> wrote:

> This proves my earlier, initial point. For a unix/win environment, you must set path variable. 
> 
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> On Aug 25, 2011, at 8:02 PM, Jamie Forrest <jamie at jamieforrest.com> wrote:
> 
>> This worked. Thank you!!!!
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 7:43 PM, Adam Rosi-Kessel <adam at rosi-kessel.org> wrote:
>> Try forcing the path to rm
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
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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
>>>>> 
>>>>> 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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