plane 'rm' is faster than with 'find' as find will consume time and 'rm' with '-exec' is slower as it will remove one file at a time...
If you have no other option but to use 'find', I would suggest you use 'xargs' so that all the files will be removed at a time.
Hi
I need to delete more than 3 million files from /var/spool/clientmqueue. When I give the following command to delete the files, I get the error
# pwd
/var/spool/clientmqueue
# rm -f *
/usr/bin/rm: arg list too long
Please tell me how can I delete the files (5 Replies)
Hi Friends,
I am new to this , I am working on AIX system and my scenario is to retrive the files from remote system and remove the files from the remote system after retreving files. I can able to retrieve the files but Can't remove files in remote system. Please check my code and help me out... (3 Replies)
Hi all, I have developed a shell script to copy the files from source to destination and simultaneously to delete the copied files in source. I can copy the files but the files cannot be deleted in source side. (3 Replies)
Dear All,
I have two files both containing 10 Million records each separated by comma(csv fmt).
One file is input.txt other is status.txt.
Input.txt-> contains fields with one unique id field (primary key we can say)
Status.txt -> contains two fields only:1. unique id and 2. status
... (8 Replies)
Hi, I'd like to ask if anybody can help improve my code to move 1 million+ files from a directory to another:
find /source/dir -name file* -type f | xargs -I '{}' mv {} /destination/dir
I learned this line of code from this forum as well and it works fine. However, file movement is kinda... (6 Replies)
Hi,
one of the server, log directory was never cleaned up. We have so many files. I want to remove all the files that starts with dfr* but I get error message when I use the *.
rm qfr*
bash: /usr/bin/rm: Arg list too long
I am trying to write this script but not working.
... (4 Replies)
#!/bin/bash
#
name=$1
type=$2
number=1
for file in ./**
do
if
then
filenumber=00$number
elif
then
filenumber=0$number
fi
tempname="$name""$filenumber"."$type"
if (4 Replies)
Hi
I have task to zip files based on modified time but they are in millions and it is taking lot of time more than 12 hours and also eating up high cpu
is there any other / better way to handle it quickly with less cpu consumptionfind . ! -name \"*.gz\" -mtime +7 -type f | grep -v '/.*/' |... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: reldb
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LEARN ABOUT BSD
xargs
XARGS(1) General Commands Manual XARGS(1)NAME
xargs - construct argument list(s) and execute utility
SYNOPSIS
xargs [ -t ][[ -x ] -n number ][ -s size ][ utility [ arguments... ]]
DESCRIPTION
The xargs utility reads space, tab, newline and end-of-file delimited arguments from the standard input and executes the specified utility
with them as arguments.
The utility and any arguments specified on the command line are given to the utility upon each invocation, followed by some number of the
arguments read from standard input. The utility is repeatedly executed until standard input is exhausted.
Spaces, tabs and newlines may be embedded in arguments using single (`` ' '') or double (``"'') quotes or backslashes (``''). Single
quotes escape all non-single quote characters, excluding newlines, up to the matching single quote. Double quotes escape all non-double
quote characters, excluding newlines, up to the matching double quote. Any single character, including newlines, may be escaped by a back-
slash.
The options are as follows:
-n number Set the maximum number of arguments taken from standard input for each invocation of the utility. An invocation of utility will
use less than number standard input arguments if the number of bytes accumulated (see the s option) exceeds the specified size or
there are fewer than number arguments remaining for the last invocation of utility. The current default value for number is
5000.
-s size Set the maximum number of bytes for the command line length provided to utility. The sum of the length of the utility name and
the arguments passed to utility (including /dev/null terminators) will be less than or equal to this number. The current default
value for size is ARG_MAX - 2048.
-t Echo the command to be executed to standard error immediately before it is executed.
-x Force xargs to terminate immediately if a command line containing number arguments will not fit in the specified (or default)
command line length.
If no utility is specified, echo(1) is used.
Undefined behavior may occur if utility reads from the standard input.
The xargs utility exits immediately (without processing any further input) if a command line cannot be assembled, utility cannot be
invoked, an invocation of the utility is terminated by a signal or an invocation of the utility exits with a value of 255.
The xargs utility exits with a value of 0 if no error occurs. If utility cannot be invoked, xargs exits with a value of 127. If any other
error occurs, xargs exits with a value of 1.
SEE ALSO echo(1), find(1)STANDARDS
The xargs utility is expected to be IEEE Std 1003.2("POSIX") compliant.
June 6, 1993 XARGS(1)