Linux rm deletes a large number of files, linuxrm

Linux rm deletes a large number of files, linuxrm

When you use rm to delete a large number of files, you may encounter an Argument list too long problem. As shown below

[oracle@DB-Server bdump]$ rm -v epps_q001_*

-bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long

Check the total number of such files, as shown below. There are 8348 files in total.

[oracle@DB-Server bdump]$ ls -lrt epps_q001_* | wc -l

-bash: /bin/ls: Argument list too long

0

[oracle@DB-Server bdump]$ find . -name "epps_q001_*" | wc -l

8438

 

The xargs command can be used to solve this problem. As follows:

[oracle@DB-Server bdump]$ find . -name "epps_q001_*" | xargs rm -r

An error occurred while deleting a large number of files in linux.

Two methods:
1) find
Find.-name *-exec rm {}\;

2) Pipelines
Ls-l | awk '{print $9}' | rm

If you want to delete a directory, use the r parameter in the rm command. If you do not need a prompt when deleting the directory, add the f parameter. Use the r and f parameters of rm with caution!

In Linux, how does one completely delete the rm file?

Rm-r + file path;
For example, to delete the 1.txt file in the/home/ftk/apache-tomcat-5.5.20/workrm folder, run the following command:-r/home/ftk/apache-tomcat-5.5.20/work/1.txt.
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