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# 15  
Old 03-24-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by radoulov
No, it will only archive the files. You should use another command to remove them:
Okay..Thanks for confirming..I wasn't so confident on that!
Quote:
Originally Posted by radoulov
Code:
find . -type f -mtime +1176 -exec rm +

If your find implementation does not support the + operator,
use xargs:

Code:
find . -type f -mtime +1176 | 
xargs rm

You should use something like this:
Yes + wont work with. I got thousands of arguments so xargs is the way to go..Actually I am not facing any problem in removal of fies..It was primarily compression problem.
& below one works .. so I am good now ..
Code:
gzip -dc older_then_2008_2.tgz | tar -tvf -

Thanks for quick turn-around !!
# 16  
Old 03-24-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by methyl
We really need to know what Operating System you are running and which is your preferred Shell.
Many unixes will not deal with single files above 2Gb - especially in tar. There may be other limitations in your OS which will require breaking the task down into manageable units.
@Methyl,
That is -
SunOS 5.8 Generic_117350-41 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V440

I dont think i got files larger then 2 GB. That is the total size of files. My actuall problem is number of files - that is extremely large..

Quote:
Originally Posted by jambesh
the error is related to the largefile size , your mv command is failing when the file size more then 2 gb.
please be advised that your mv commad coming from large file aware directory..
type which mv ------> to get the current location of mv. if /bin
you can try /usr/local/bin/mv (exclusive path in find command)

instead of mv you have to specify the exclusive path.

i had this problem and corrected it this way.
you can check the man page of solaris for ---largefile
your file size is 5+gb.
5 Gb is total size of all the files , returned by find command. that's not about a single file. Jambesh, you have given really useful info here..But, I didnt get your point..
It's just for my interest - you told some method to move files larger then 2 Gigs.. Can you please explain the stuff...? If you can give me commads/example - it would be easy to understand..

Btway,Thanks jambesh & methyl for sharing such valuable information.
# 17  
Old 03-25-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by kedar.mehta
Okay..Thanks for confirming..I wasn't so confident on that!

Yes + wont work with. I got thousands of arguments so xargs is the way to go..[...]
Notice that find ... -exec rm + works like find ... | xargs:

1. Just like xargs it should work with any number of arguments.
2. Not like Solaris xargs, it will handle "pathological" filenames correctly.
3. Solaris find supports it.
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