Linux Command Error: -bash: /bin/rm: Argument List Too Long

dear
i also got this error while deleting certain files.
to overcome this just use the command like this

echo /home/var/www/web/oldfiles/dynami* | xargs /bin/rm -f

enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks it works

i think rm has a limit, so you will have to do a work-around

you can do is use find and pipe it so each file found, remove once by one.

like this:

commmand:

change to the directory where all your files are located:

now find and remove each file with the wild card

hope that helps

thanks, it worked perfectly this way

Solutions Xargs Send each rm argument using the command xargs as below: find . -type f -name *.extention OR *.*) | xargs rm Command find The second solution consists of using the command find together with â€"exec: find . -name "*.extention" -exec rm {} ; loop for (bash) Another solution consists of performing a loop in shell script: for i in 'seq 0-9'a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z ; do rm $i*.extention; done Perl program Another solution using Perl : perl -e 'for(<directory/*.extenti if Shell Script: #/usr/local/bin/b i in /directory/*.extention do rm -fv $i done
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oh wow, that worked, thanks so much, ive been trying to get this fix. i started to delete one by one, but there were like 2000 files in there. you saved me so much time

:)

i still am getting:
-bash: /bin/rm: argument list too long

when i send this command