Re: [Nolug] Getting rid of old files

On Wednesday 28 January 2004 00:06, Ron Johnson wrote:
> 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....

Actually the -n or --max-args switch does that for xargs ...

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