Re: [Nolug] Getting rid of old files

On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 21:24, Mark A. Hershberger wrote:
> 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.

Ah, interesting....

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