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# 1  
Old 04-26-2010
Problem in deleting files
Hi Guys,

In one of my folders i have 10000 log files starting with sqlfile.....

Iam trying to delete the log files alone from the folder using for loop but i am getting an error

Code:
ksh: /usr/bin/ls: 0403-027 The parameter list is too long.

For loop i used

Code:
 for i in `ls sqlfile*`
more>do
more>rm $i
more>done

Even i tried below command, even that also gave the same error
Code:
ls sqlfile* | head -100 |xargs rm

Guys help me in this.

Thanks for your help in advance.

Regards,
Magesh.
# 2  
Old 04-26-2010
Try:
Code:
for i in sqlfile*
do
  rm "$i"
done

# 3  
Old 04-26-2010
Try this

Code:
find /path -name sqlfile* -type f -exec rm -f {} \;

# 4  
Old 04-26-2010
Thanks Guys.. that solved the issue.
# 5  
Old 04-26-2010
use below perl code:-

Code:
perl -wle 'opendir(DH,"/path/to/related/directory") or die "can not open DIR $!;";
@FILES = readdir DH ;
@SQLFILES = grep { /sqlsuffix/ } @FILES ;
unlink @SQLFILES ;
'

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