Re: find did not work

2004-10-28 Thread Lennart Sorensen 
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 12:33:49AM +0200, corerix wrote:
 I have a problem with findutils_4.1.20-4 ,
 find and locate wont work .
 the problem existed till 2 weeks .
 so the wenn i try to compile a file i get following error
 find debian -type d | xargs rmdir -p --ignore-fail-on-non-empty
 rmdir: zu wenige Argumente
What does that mean ^ ?

It is much easier for people to help with problems if you set your
locale back to C before reporting bugs, given most of use don't
understand German (or whichever language that is).

based on an educated guess of what it means, I think it's a problem with
rmdir saying Too many arguments, in which case you should limit the
number of arguments xargs passes to it, using the -n option.  maybe you
can do -n 10, or even -n 1 if rmdir only allows one dir at a time in
some cases.  Also if you have subdirs your command will get annoyed, in
this case:

 debian
 +-x
 +-y
 | +-bar
 +-z

since find will return x y y/bar z and if you rmdir y before y/bar it
will either fail or it will fail when it tries to remove the already
gone y/bar.

Adding -depth option to find will make it return x y/bar y z which will
work fine.  Also whoever wrote the code isn't doing things right.  They
should use find -depth with rmdir without -p, since the -p is only
useful because they didn't use -depth and were causing errors.

So add -depth to find, and remove -p from rmdir and it should make
sense.  Then add -n # to xargs if it is still complaining about the
number of arguments.

Len Sorensen

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2004-10-28 Thread Michael Siebenborn 
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Subject: Re: find did not work
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 17:32:10 +0200
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To: Lennart Sorensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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find debian -type d | xargs rmdir -p --ignore-fail-on-non-empty
rmdir: zu wenige Argumente
What does that mean ^ ?

based on an educated guess of what it means, I think it's a problem with
rmdir saying Too many arguments,
Indeed, this is german. But it means Too few arguments
Example:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$rmdir
rmdir: zu wenige Argumente
,,rmdir --help gibt weitere Informationen.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$export LC_ALL=C
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$rmdir
rmdir: too few arguments
Try `rmdir --help' for more information.
Seems to me, the find command doesn't find any directory to delete.
Regards,
Michael

Re: find did not work

2004-10-28 Thread corerix 
On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 09:46:44AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
 Lennart Sorensen wrote:
  corerix wrote:
   find debian -type d | xargs rmdir -p --ignore-fail-on-non-empty
   rmdir: zu wenige Argumente
  What does that mean ^ ?
  
  based on an educated guess of what it means, I think it's a problem with
  rmdir saying Too many arguments, in which case you should limit the
 
 Please see Debian bug #176201.  Is this the same problem?
 
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=176201
 
 This bug has been fixed in upstream cvs.  The next upstream release of
 findutils will fix this problem.
 
 Bob
 
 
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Thanks for reply ,
'Please see Debian bug #176201.  Is this the same problem?'
yes thats the case .

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Re: find did not work

2004-10-28 Thread Bob Proulx 
Koef wrote:
 On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 10:01:11AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
 
  On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 12:33:49AM +0200, corerix wrote:
 
   find debian -type d | xargs rmdir -p --ignore-fail-on-non-empty
   rmdir: zu wenige Argumente
 
  What does that mean ^ ?
  
  based on an educated guess of what it means, I think it's a problem with
  rmdir saying Too many arguments,
 
 In fact, it says too few arguments :-)
 So it seems his debian directory has no subdirectories at all.

If that is the case, and certainly possible, then run xargs with the
-r option.  I almost always use -print0 and -r0 together.

  find debian -type d -print0 | xargs -r0 rmdir -p --ignore-fail-on-non-empty

Bob

find did not work

2004-10-25 Thread corerix 
Hello ,
I have a problem with findutils_4.1.20-4 ,
find and locate wont work .
the problem existed till 2 weeks .
so the wenn i try to compile a file i get following error
find debian -type d | xargs rmdir -p --ignore-fail-on-non-empty
rmdir: zu wenige Argumente
make: *** [install] Fehler 123
kfind and dlocate works
What i have to do ?
any help are welcome

greetings 

central