MAX_ARG_PAGES
Bob Chiodini
rchiodin at bellsouth.net
Mon Jan 3 17:58:26 UTC 2005
On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 10:59, Stuart Lamble wrote:
> Hi Russell
>
> I have tried that, but I now get bash: xarg: Argument list too long.
>
> I am actually taking a directory of some 4000 image files, all about 11kb in
> size and using another program, writing them to an *.avi file.
> I then delete all the separate image files, where rm also complains with the
> same error.
>
> Any other sugestions?
>
> Where would be the best place to ask kernel questions?
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
> > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Russell Kaiser
> > Sent: Monday, January 03, 2005 12:11 PM
> > To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> > Subject: Re: MAX_ARG_PAGES
> >
> > I have hit this problem before when doing "rm *" in a
> > directory with lots and lots of files. The way to get around
> > this problem when deleting a large number of files like that
> > is to use the xargs command with rm. Here are a few examples
> > of this. Google xargs with rm and you will see a few others:
> >
> > http://freebooks.by.ru/view/ShellProgIn24h/31480122.htm
> >
> > http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6060
> >
> > This doesn't address what you are trying to do in the kernel,
> > but is one solution to your argument list too long issue.
> >
> > --
> > Russell Kaiser
> > Russell.Kaiser at gmail.com
How about alphabetically such as rm [a-c]*. Otherwise, you would
probably need to recompile the kernel. There are several threads in the
archives about getting and recompiling the kernel source.
Bob...
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