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Thanks, but two issues:

(1) This is a dedicated server, but it's in US. I am not. So I don't have physical access to the server to run a CD or something.

(2) This is a live production server,...

The path definitely exists. The user is root. Anything else?

This command used to work in my old Linux servers to delete old files (older than 2 days, in this case) but it suddenly not working at all--

find /path/to/dir/* -mtime 2 -exec rm {} \;

...

Hi. My "/usr" folder is running out of space. My "/home" folder is quite large and has a lot of free space. As follows:


Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
...
/dev/sda5 ...

Thanks Jim. Doesn't work. The "newbigfile" is totally blank.


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Found it. The first | has to be escaped...

Hi.

I have a huge file (350 million lines).
I need to delete all lines in it that:

1. Begin with a pipe character -- '|'
2. Or have less than 5 pipe characters in the line

Have been...