{"id":8848,"date":"2019-05-02T12:24:38","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T12:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ittutorial.org\/?p=8848"},"modified":"2020-11-13T09:24:57","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T09:24:57","slug":"bash-bin-rm-argument-list-too-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ittutorial.org\/bash-bin-rm-argument-list-too-long\/","title":{"rendered":"bash: \/bin\/rm: Argument list too long"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Anydisk or mount point is full in linux, you need to delete files. You can get ” -bash: \/bin\/rm: Argument list too long ” error during remove files.<\/p>\n

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bash: \/bin\/rm: Argument list too long<\/span><\/h2>\n

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You want to delete all audit files which are .aud extension like following.<\/p>\n

[root@MehmetSalih audit]# rm -rf *aud \r\n\r\n-bash: \/bin\/rm: Argument list too long<\/pre>\n
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Argument list too long<\/span><\/h3>\n
But you got ”\u00a0-bash: \/bin\/rm: Argument list too long ” error, to solve this problem you can use following command.<\/p>\n
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[root@MehmetSalih audit]#\u00a0 find . -name \"*aud\" -print | xargs rm -rf<\/pre>\n
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You can change *aud extension to the *trc or *trm. You can delete all trc extension files like following if their argument list too long.<\/p>\n
[root@MehmetSalih audit]#\u00a0 find . -name \"*trc\" -print | xargs rm -rf<\/pre>\n
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[root@MehmetSalih audit]#\u00a0 find . -name \"*trm\" -print | xargs rm -rf\r\n\r\n[root@MehmetSalih audit]#\u00a0 find . -name \"*.log\" -print | xargs rm -rf\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n
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You can also use Following solutions to solve this problem.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n
find . -name \"*aud\" -delete \r\n\r\nfind . -type f -name \"FILE-TO-FIND\" -exec rm -f {} \\; \r\n\r\nfind . -name \"*aud\" -print | xargs rm -rf\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n
for file in *; do rm -f $file;done<\/span><\/em><\/strong>\r\n\r\nor (if you want to delete also directories)\r\n\r\nfor file in *; do rm -rf $file;done<\/span><\/strong><\/pre>\n
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