From: Gold Sun (goldsun8@yahoo.com.sg)
Date: Sat Aug 27 2005 - 08:09:52 EDT
Thanks all.
Some of the replies :
A couple replies say I will still some time to complete the
deletion, so I probably can do
"nohup <delete command> &
to let it run by itself in the background.
As I need to remove files older than 180 days, I chose :
cd <dir where files exist>
find . -xdev -type f -mtime +180 -exec rm {} \+ &
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Other replies :
Mount the filesystem with logging on. You can do this without
unmounting
the filesystem
mount -o remout,logging <dev> >filesystem>
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cd <directory>
find . -name '*2004*12' -o -name '*2004*11*' -o .... | xargs rm -f &
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1. find . -exec rm {} \;
2. for x in `ls`; do rm $x ; done
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You ran into a limitation on the ability of the shell. I have run into
similar problems in the past. Here is how I worked around it. It
requires the use of perl. It will remove all files within the
directory
where executed. Test to verify for yourself how it works.
ls | perl -ne 'chomp; unlink'
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