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...and is run once for each matched > file. > Not wrong, just not very explicit regarding process. The man page does not say that find acts upon each file as it is found, only that it acts upon each file that is found. Neither does the man page speak to the limits of the kernel configuration (MAX_ARG_PAGES) implicitly used by cp, find, ls, etc. The problem you have is that the selection of all qualified files is completed before any are acted on by find. So, in your case of an overlarge collection, the page limit is exceeded before any are deleted. Taking each file as it is found and piping it to...

I get this error when I try to copy a directory with a lot of files: "bash: /usr/local/bin/rsync: Argument list too long" The exact command is: "/usr/local/bin/rsync -rsh=/usr/bin/rsh -r --delete --perms --owner --group /mail/spool/imap/user/wex/* root@192.168.250.68:/mail/spool/imap/user/wex". BUT, if I try tris command it works: "/usr/local/bin/rsync

The directory that I am trying to clean up is huge . every time get this error msg -bash: /usr/bin/find: Argument list too long Please advise Anas -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20100123/f6534851/attachment-0001.html>