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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Originally Posted by edfair
The list generated is limited in size. Try breaking your request down to the size it can handle like:
rm a*.txt
rm b*.txt
and so forth. If one of the sub groups is too large you will need to break it down further.
I think the limit is 256 but it has been a while since I tried to difine it.
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.
hello all
i need some help because i am a unix/linux dummy...i have the following:
DIR1> has 121437 files in it with varying dates going back to early April,
a sub dir DIR1/DIR2> has 55835 files in it
I need to move all files (T*.*) out of DIR1 into DIR2 that are older than today?
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Hi,
I am trying to perform this task:
tar -cvf tar.newfile ??????.bas
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I have a list of filenames:
A01_155716
A05_155780
A07_155812
A09_155844
A11_155876
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Hi,
I have a requirement where I need to TAR more than 50K files.
Even though I can do TAR successfully on few 100s of files, but whenever Im trying to TAR the entire 50K files, I am getting the error message :
Argument List Too Long.
Please suggest how can i avoid this error.
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Hi,
I wanted a script to find sum of files for a particular date, below is my script
ls -lrt *.req | nawk '$6 == "Aug"' | nawk '$7 == "1"'| awk '{sum = sum + $5} END {print sum}'
However, i get the error below
/usr/bin/ls: arg list too long
How do i fix that.
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#!/bin/ksh
umask 022
LIST=`scripts.list`
for i in $LIST
do
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DSC_0059_01.jpg
DSC_0059_02.jpg
DSC_0059_03.jpg
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on /my/folder/jobs/
some_name_2016-01-17-22-38-58_some name_0_0.zip.done
some_name_2016-01-17-22-40-30_some name_0_0.zip.done
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LEARN ABOUT OSX
size
SIZE(1) General Commands Manual SIZE(1)NAME
size - print the size of the sections in an object file
SYNOPSIS
size [ option ... ] [ object ... ]
DESCRIPTION
Size (without the -m option) prints the (decimal) number of bytes required by the __TEXT, __DATA and __OBJC segments. All other segments
are totaled and that size is listed in the `others' column. The final two columns is the sum in decimal and hexadecimal. If no file is
specified, a.out is used.
The options to size(1) are:
- Treat the remaining arguments as name of object files not options to size(1).
-m Print the sizes of the Mach-O segments and sections as well as the total sizes of the sections in each segment and the total size of
the segments in the file.
-l When used with the -m option, also print the addresses and offsets of the sections and segments.
-x When used with the -m option, print the values in hexadecimal (with leading 0x's) rather than decimal.
-arch arch_type
Specifies the architecture, arch_type, of the file for size(1) to operate on when the file is a universal file. (See arch(3) for
the currently know arch_types.) The arch_type can be "all" to operate on all architectures in the file. The default is to display
only the host architecture, if the file contains it; otherwise, all architectures in the file are shown.
SEE ALSO otool(1)BUGS
The size of common symbols can't be reflected in any of the numbers for relocatable object files.
Apple Computer, Inc. July 28, 2005 SIZE(1)