 | | | Large number of files in single directory | Large number of files in single directory 2005-05-27 - By Mike Wooding
Back
--- "Burke, Thomas G." <tg.burke@(protected)> 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.
It's a shell limitation. There's a utility,
"xargs" that will help work around this.
man xargs
> -- --Original Message-- --
> 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
>
>
>
> 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."
>
> 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?
>
> Chris
>
>
> --
> redhat-list mailing list
> unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@(protected)?subject=unsubscribe
>
> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
>
> --
> redhat-list mailing list
> unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@(protected)?subject=unsubscribe
> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
>
He who laughs last thinks slowest.
__ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ __
Do You Yahoo!?
Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around
http://mail.yahoo.com
--
redhat-list mailing list
unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@(protected)?subject=unsubscribe
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Earn $52 per hosting referral at Lunarpages.
|
|
|