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





https://www.wallpaperama.com/forums/-bash-bin-rm-argument-list-too-long-t6926.html

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

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