'rm' Can not delete files

[Коньков Евгений]

Здравствуйте, Da.

Вы писали 10 февраля 2012 г., 17:51:59:

DR> On 02/11/12 01:34, Henry Olyer wrote:
>> So what do I change if I want to increase the shell's file limit?
DR> I don't think you can. It's not a shell limit. It's a limit to the 
DR> number of arguments the command itself will take. As said, the shell 
DR> expands '*' to a list of files as the argument, and rm is limited to the
DR> number of arguments it will parse.

Mya be it would be better in program do not process options 'all at
once'. but instead process them one by one: get next option, remove
file, get next option, remove file ....

for $i in (@options) do
   delete_file( $i )


>> I use bash 4.
>>
>> And by the way, for me, part of the normal installation of a new FBSD box
>> is to make certain changes.  For example, for "uniq -c" I use "%06" instead
>> of "%d" because this way I can sort the output.  Things like that.
>>
>> I never learned a shell language.  I suppose no one is as dumb as someone
>> who choose's not to learn, so, what's the right one.  csh?, because I do a
>> lot of scientific work?, or should I be looking at another?
DR> There's not really much difference in this factor for shell types; as 
DR> for changes you'd have to hack the command's (say rm) code.

DR> As mentioned, I'd use the find -delete combination.
>> On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:25 PM, andrew clarke<mail at ozzmosis.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue 2012-02-07 23:17:16 UTC+0000, RW (rwmaillists at googlemail.com)
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:14:56 +0000
>>>> Matthew Seaman wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> ls -1 | xargs rm
>>>> but be aware that that wont work for filenames with spaces.
>>> In addition, I don't believe it solves the OP's initial problem of the
>>> argument list being too long!  You'd probably need to use the xargs -n
>>> switch here.
>>>
>>> The above will also try to 'rm' directories, which won't work.
>>>
>>> Instead I would use 'find':
>>>
>>> find . -type f -depth 1 -delete
>>>
>>> This will also work with filenames with spaces.
>>>
>>> Or the scenic route, using xargs, with one rm per file (slower):
>>>
>>> find . -type f -depth 1 -print0 | xargs -n1 -0 rm -f
>>>
>>> (The "scenic route" is useful if you want to do something else with
>>> the files instead of deleting them with rm.)
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Andrew


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