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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Removing large number of temp files Post 302989976 by mad man on Friday 20th of January 2017 06:43:46 AM
Old 01-20-2017
Removing large number of temp files
Hi All,

I am having a situation now to delete a huge number of temp files created during run times approx. 16700+ files. We have never imagined that we will get this this much big list of files during run time. It worked fine for lesser no of files in the list. But when list is huge we are getting "List too long error".

Code:
 
 remvfile='/etc/usr/bin/removefilelist'
 rm -f `cat $remvfile`

Please find the code above. The removefilelist is the file which contains the list of files to delete. Please find the sample content of removefilelist below.

Code:
 /etc/usr/workfile/filename1
 /etc/usr/workfile/filename2
 /etc/usr/workfile/filename3
 /etc/usr/workfile/filename4

We also don't know how many number of file we will get in the list. Probably more than 50000+. So I would like to get your help here.

Thanks.
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

american-english-huge

american-english-huge(5)					   Users' Manual					  american-english-huge(5)

NAME

       american-english-huge - a list of English words

DESCRIPTION

       /usr/share/dict/american-english-huge is an ASCII file which contains an alphabetic list of words, one per line.

FILES

       There  may  be  any  number  of	word lists in /usr/share/dict/.  /etc/dictionaries-common/words is a symbolic link to the currently-chosen
       /usr/share/dict/<language> file.  /usr/share/dict/words is a symbolic link to /etc/dictionaries-common/words, and  is  the  name  by  which
       other  software should refer to the system word list.  See select-default-wordlist(8) for more information, and/or to change the currently-
       chosen word list.

       The directory /usr/share/dict can contain word lists for many languages, with name of the language in English, e.g., /usr/share/dict/french
       and  /usr/share/dict/danish  contain respectively lists of French and Danish words if they exist.  Such lists should be coded using the ISO
       8859-1 character set encoding.

SEE ALSO

       ispell(1), select-default-wordlist(8), and the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard.

HISTORY

       The words lists are not specific, and may be generated from any number of sources.

       The system word list used to be /usr/dict/words.  For compatibility, software should check that location if /usr/share/dict/words does  not
       exist.

AUTHOR

       Word  lists  are  collected and maintained by various authors.  The Debian English word lists are built from the SCOWL (Spell- Checker Ori-
       ented Word Lists) package, whose upstream editor is Kevin Atkinson <kevina@users.sourceforge.net>.

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