Hi all,
Is there something like,
unix is unable to use commands like ls -ltr (sort etc)
when there are huge number of files in a directory(may
be thousands/millions).
If yes, what is the limit and how to know it on sun
solaris 2.8.
thnx and regards,
srinivas
--- "Lakhani, Vipul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> maybe use find (check the syntax of below) ....
> (just guessing)
>
> eg find . -name '*' -exec rm {} \;
>
> readt this :
>
> http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6060
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: kommareddy sreenivasa
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 29 August 2002 11:59
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: arg list too long in unix
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> OS: SOlaris 2.8
> DB: 8i
>
> In the clean up process of the following files, I am
> trying to list out the files that start with cz.
>
> cz-session-returnui177_11Jan02_0959AM_33509.txt
> cz-session-Applet178_11Jan02_0959AM_34108.txt
> cz-session-returnui175_11Jan02_0959AM_20504.txt
> cz-session-DHTML176_11Jan02_0959AM_22335.txt
> cz-session-returnui179_11Jan02_1000AM_34566.txt
> cz-session-Applet180_11Jan02_1000AM_34818.txt
> cz-session-BatchSingle181_11Jan02_1001AM_07757.txt
> cz-session-BatchSingle182_11Jan02_1001AM_11687.txt
> cz-session-BatchSingle183_11Jan02_1001AM_14010.txt
> cz-session-BatchSingle184_11Jan02_1001AM_17708.txt
> cz-session-BatchSingle185_11Jan02_1001AM_20029.txt
>
> but when I issue ls -ltr cz* , I am getting arg list
> too long error. I 70,000-80,000 files that needs to
> be
> removed from the directory.
>
> I cant list them using ls -ltr *session* as this
> string may change. I have to identify the files that
> srart with cz only.
>
> can somebody through somelight on this.
>
> thanx in advance,
> srinivas
>
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