Do you mean 4 million (4M) files? The performance on a directory with that many files will be terrible, to say the least. I'm surpised you did not run out of inodes....
There is nothing wrong with your command. It probably takes 60 seconds to locate one file name in the directory and delete it.
Try this, and check back on Monday.... assume your directory name is ad.
You need to get rid of the directory as well. Then recreate it.
Hi there,
I am trying to move around 3000 files from one directory to another. The mv command is complaining from too many arguments. I tried to use the xargs command but with no luck. Could some body provide help?
Regards (4 Replies)
I discovered that GNU's xargs has a -P option to allow its processes to run in parallel. Great! Is this a GNU thing, or is it supported by other platforms as well? (4 Replies)
Hi,
I have a requirement to RCP the files from remote server to local server.
Also the RCP has to run in parallel. However using 'xargs' retrives 2 file names during each loop. How do we restrict to only one file name using xargs and loop till remaining files.
I use the below code for... (2 Replies)
Hello there,
Let me show you a simple example of what I am trying to achieve:
1) I have an input text file with some lines:
1 a
2 b
3 c
2) And I want to run a command with these lines as arguments (+ arbitrary extra arguments). For example:
$ command "1 a" "2 b" "3 c" "bye"
I... (7 Replies)
hi
Could any one please tell me the option using which we can run multiple commands using xargs
I have list of files, I want to run dos2unix and chmod at one shot on them
I tried google n searched man pages but couldnt really find the solution , please help
right now im doing this
ls... (4 Replies)
Using the bash shell I'm trying to either create a command for the command line or a script that will show netstat info for a given process name. Here is an example of what I'm trying to do:$ ps aux |grep catalina |grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'
5132
$ netstat -nlp |grep 5132
(Not all processes... (11 Replies)
Hello, I need some help with xargs
$ ls
aaa bbb ccc ddd$ ls | xargs -I{} ls -la {}
-rw-rw-r--. 1 xxx xx 0 May 30 20:04 aaa
-rw-rw-r--. 1 xxx xx 0 May 30 20:04 bbb
-rw-rw-r--. 1 xxx xx 0 May 30 20:04 ccc
-rw-rw-r--. 1 xxx xx 0 May 30 20:04 dddit's possible to have output like this with... (3 Replies)
Hi,
can anyone tell me in detail ?
what the following do in detail ?
I am trying to get a largest number in a list
Thanks
Tao
LARGEST=$(echo $* | xargs -n1 | sort -nr | tail -1) (3 Replies)