On 0, Holger Rauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Vineet! > > Thanks a lot for your quick reply! > > On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > > [...] > > processing the list, i.e. with xargs? It's hard to make suggestions > > without seeing what you're trying to do... > > You're right ;-) What I'm doing is > > FILES=`$LS -lt1 $BACKUP_DIR/arc/*.arc | $TAIL -$NUM_OF_FILES` > for i in $FILES; do > $RM -f $i > done
All I can say is... it works for me. How many files in the directory
where you're having this fail? It works for me in /usr/lib.
# ls /usr/lib -lt1 | wc -l
841
Obviously I am not using 'rm -f $i' in this directory, I am using
'echo $i' instead. Shouldn't make any difference. It works for me
with $NUM_OF_FILES up to 800.
BTW, you probably want something more like this:
FILES=`$LS -lt1 $BACKUP_DIR/arc/*.arc | $AWK '{print $9;}' | $TAIL -$NUM_OF_FILES`
for i in $FILES; do
$RM -f $i
done
otherwise you will get a lot of files with names like '-rw-r-----'
that rm can't delete for some mysterious reason. Maybe that was your
problem?
Tom
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