hi,

I am trying to delete files using script:-

find . -name "*.xml" | xargs rm *

but i am getting an error "/usr/bin/xargs: Arg list too long"


Could you please help me out with this, or if it could be done using for or while loop.....please help...........Thanks in advance!!!

you could use something like:

find . -name "*.xml" | while read temp_file
do
rm $temp_file
done

don't pipe to rm *! This will remove everything in the current directory!


try this

find . -name "*.xml" |xargs rm

find . -name "*.xml" -exec rm {}  \;