Re: [Nolug] Getting rid of old files

Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:

>> $ find . -mtime +7 -print0 | xargs -0 rm
>
> Doesn't this suffer the limitation that the command buffer would
> get filled, if you were going to delete *lots* of files?

Nope. xargs knows how much of a command line buffer you have and
splits up the input appropriately.

> Of course, if you are *not* going to delete 20,000 at once....

Either way, it works.

Mark.

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