 | | | Large number of files in single directory | Large number of files in single directory 2005-05-25 - By Stephen Carville
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Burke, Thomas G. wrote:
> I delete them by character... e.g. rm -rf *1.tmp, rm -rf *2.tmp, and so on.
Don't know of any other way to do it. - although I wrote a little C program
once to handle it for me.
>
> -Tom
>
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> From: redhat-list-bounces@(protected) [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@(protected)
]On Behalf Of Chris
> Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 1:19 PM
> To: redhat-list@(protected)
> Subject: Large number of files in single directory
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> There seems to be a filesystem limitation on most flavors of Linux I've
> worked on, in terms of a max number of files in a single directory - before
> tools like tar, gzip, rm, mv, cp and others stop working properly. For
> example, I have some users that have 2000+ files in a single directory (some
> as many as 10,000 files) and trying to tar these directories is always
> coming up with "argument list too long."
This is beacue of the limit of the length of the command line. There is
a limit on the number of files in a directory but I don't knoiw what it
is and I haven't hit it yet. IIRC, the targets I've dealt with was 40K+
> Is there a way for tar and these other tools to "see" all these files and
> process them as normal? I recall once I had to resort to something like
> "find . -print | xargs rm -fr" to remove thousands of files from a single
> directory. Is doing something similar but replacing "rm" with "tar" the
> only way to make this work, or does tar have some sort of command line
> switch (I couldn't find one) to work with extremely long argument lists?
Try:
$ find <directory> -exec tar -avf foo.tar {} \;
> Chris
>
>
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