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Thread: To remove large no.of files using rm *.req gives Error

  1. #1
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    Dear Gurus,

    I need to delete large no. of files in a purticular directory in Solarix 8, using rm *.req

    But, rm prompts "Long List Error", so, you can not remove"

    Could some one throw some light on this.

    TIA

    Anandharaj
    Anandharaj
    a_anandharaj@yahoo.com

  2. #2
    How about trying ls *.req > {file}

    vi the file and substitute the begining of each line with rm
    then execute the file like a script.

    for example:

    rm gfsdfsd.req
    rm sdfsdfs.req
    rm sdf dfsdc.req

    I am sure there are better ways of doing this, just one way to do it.
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    simpler :

    find YOUR_DIRECTORY -type f -name '*.req' -exec rm -f {} \;

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    Hi Pipo,

    Say for example,
    My path is /d01/ora/app/1103/log

    i have lot of *.req files.

    I need to delete all the *.req files only from that directory, so could I issue the command something like below:

    find /d01/ora/app/1103/log -*.req f -name '*.req' -exec rm -f {} \;

    pls confirm.

    TIA
    Anandharaj
    a_anandharaj@yahoo.com

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    find /d01/ora/app/1103/log -type f -name '*.req' -exec rm -f {} \;

    if you are not sure, just check files that will be impacted by doing :


    find /d01/ora/app/1103/log -type f -name '*.req' -exec ls -la {} \;


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