Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Another Find: Finding and Deleting Files Based On Date Creation
To find and delete directories:
For files:
find -mtime +n -daystart | xargs rm -rf
To be sure, we can pipe the result to a text file to double-check the files:
Enjoy deleting!
Friday, August 17, 2007
*Nix Tidbits
Got this error/warning while restarting Apache on FreeBSD:
No such file or directory:
Failed to enable the ‘httpready’ Accept Filter
To resolve this, issue the following command:
kldload accf_http
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So, some some directory was filled with thousands of files. To remove these files, you will issue:
rm -rf *
But if this error occurs:
- /bin/rm: Argument list too long
You may use use find and xarg. To do that, you can issue this command:
find . -type f -name '*string_here*' -print | xargs rm
Others may ask, why not use the -delete option instead of xargs rm? There are a lot of deployments that has an old version of find. :)
No such file or directory:
Failed to enable the ‘httpready’ Accept Filter
To resolve this, issue the following command:
kldload accf_http
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
So, some some directory was filled with thousands of files. To remove these files, you will issue:
rm -rf *
But if this error occurs:
- /bin/rm: Argument list too long
You may use use find and xarg. To do that, you can issue this command:
find . -type f -name '*string_here*' -print | xargs rm
Others may ask, why not use the -delete option instead of xargs rm? There are a lot of deployments that has an old version of find. :)
Labels: find, FreeBSD, httpd, Linux, rm, xarg
