Hi,

I have used a command rm *.txt in a directory which has about 2000 txt files.

but it is throwing the following error:

error: args list too long.

any ideas pls..

find /path/to/dir/ -iname '*.txt' -exec echo rm '{}' ';'

rm `find -name "*.txt" `

If it's too many arguments with globbing, how do you expect backticks to help cram them into one argument list? That's not going to work!

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This is not an effective or general-purpose solution, especially since the size of a commandline may be limited by the size of the names and not just their number. The proper way to deal with it is to use pipes or tools, not to keep randomly trying different globs until you find one small enough.

find /path/to/dir/ -iname '*.pdf' -exec echo rm '{}' ';'

after running this command, I am getting the following error:

find: bad option -iname

Try 'name' instead. 'iname' is the case-insensitive variant supported by the GNU variant I usually use. And you are replacing /path/to/dir with the path to your dir, right?

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