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<0> PolarWolf, one second I'm at work hotline
<1> I don't like hotline...it ****s!
<2> I'm on the first day of my vacation, this had better be important
<3> I am trying to delete some files in a directory but get /bin/rm: argument list too long
<4> PW: up north already ?
<2> Revenger: Yeah
<3> what can I do to delete them, if I try to move them I get the same thing
<2> Revenger: It's >< this cold
<4> that was quick :P
<2> Revenger: Aye, get away ASAP and come back as late as possible :)
<4> PW: say, is anyone still using the vpn ? :P
<2> Revenger: Not that I can tell, but I'm gonna start using it again anyway. ISP data retention stuff and all :P
<3> I didn't know there was a limit to the number of files linux commands could handle
<2> Use ipsec0 as default gateway
<3> how do I get around this
<2> I wonder if it's perform
<4> PW: how about openvpn'in it ? :P
<2> Revenger: Bah, not you too :)
<2> Revenger: There's nothing keeping us from also supporting openvpn...
<4> its *so* much nicer than ipsec.
<4> true dat
<5> quantum: thre's a way to increase the number of FDs per process, but I'm not sure how to do it
<5> Juergen: laptop good enough to do Aero Gl***?
<6> dammitall.
<4> Tamahome_: amd64mobile 3700+ with a gig of ram.
<6> I am missing a very important PDF on water storage.
<3> Tamahome_, well I guess I need a workaround then...hmmm if I could get it to product a shell script with rm followed by each file name I think that would do it
<5> quantum: you could use find.
<6> quantum__: you could use some generics.
<2> kosmo: Water proof containers, make sure it's not clear plastic
<5> quantum: find -name filename.txt -exec rm {} \;
<6> PolarWolf: more than that. but, I found the PDF. It was hiding on another machine.
<5> Juergen: Acer Ferrari?
<2> kosmo: What more is there to report on it? :)
<4> Fujitsu Siemens Amilo A1650
<6> PolarWolf: and I should have specified further. Its not just storage, it is water treatment for TEOTWAKI type stuff.
<5> ah
<7> how can i make partition /dev/hda4 the / partition?
<6> Fex-Head: tell it so.
<2> kosmo: Oh, ah
<5> Fujitsu's are nice... well, the Lifebooks, anyways
<7> the graphical installer is incapable of doing so
<4> Tamahome_: fast as hell.
<7> the graphical installer screws up partition tables
<6> Fex-Head: Im getting the feeling you are full of ****.
<7> on my hardware at least
<2> Hmm, what did I intend to do with this xterm again
<4> ATI 64bit chipset. bridges AND graphics.
<2> I know I started it for a reason
<6> Fex-Head: what distro ?
<7> suse
<7> it can't partition mac hard drives
<6> PolarWolf: rm -rf * ? :)
<4> Tamahome_: RadeonExpress200M
<7> it says so in the documentation
<2> kosmo: No, that wasn't it
<3> Tamahome_, yeah find can't handle that many names either like that, but I used find . and piped it thorugh grep to a file, now how do I add rm to each line
<5> quantum: how many files are you needing to deal with?!?
<6> Fex-Head: sounds like you ahve some reading to do.
<8> quantum__, xargs
<3> Tamahome_, : looks like about 19000
<5> oh yeah I forgot about xargs
<6> quantum__: use generics. rm a* ; rm b* ; rm c*
<7> mount /dev/hda4 /
<6> jesus h.
<7> is that it?
<6> dont re-invent the freaking wheel.
<3> koshka88, too many files for rm to handle
<6> quantum__: bull****. USE GENERICS.
<8> kosmo, find /path -type f -print | xargs rm
<8> kosmo, hard to get more generic than that.
<6> Liandrin: I understand, but hes not listening to you yet.
<8> oh, of course, if there's the possibility of spaces in filenames, you'll want -print0 and xargs -0 instead
<6> Liandrin: and I dont know that trick, and I will forget it in precisely 5 minutes.
<9> people, you're missing the point
<5> Fex-Head: yeah, but you won't be able to mount that as / until you reboot, so you'll need to edit /etc/fstab and tell it to use hda4 instead of what's already there for /
<9> whatever you use (wildcards, xargs, etc.), the resulting list of file names is *expanded* on the rm command line
<8> kosmo, -print0 separates filenames with NULs instead of spaces
<10> Liandrin: more generic?? ind /path -type f -exec rm {} \; :)
<9> and the OS has an inherent limit on the size of that command line, so lists above that limit just won't work
<8> JackStorm, ah, but that will, if I'm not mistaken, fork a separate rm for each file
<8> JackStorm, whereas find | xargs will batch as many filenames as will fit into one rm
<9> quantum__: are you trying to delete all files in a directory, or a specific subset of them?
<2> -exec will spawn a rm for every result, no? How would that be bothered by the amount arguments on the commandline?
<10> Liandrin: true, but I find it's quicker when dealing with over 10million files.
<5> maybe the limitation is in the shell?
<9> PolarWolf: the -exec trick works of course
<8> it wouldn't, but it's needlessly inefficient
<2> Of course, but it works
<9> PolarWolf: but it just came up in the conversation :^)
<6> mod-: I understand... which is why I said targeted generics. A*, etc
<5> I dunno, I've never needed to delete 19,000 files before
<10> Tamahome_: I had a rm -rf on a directory take 2days to finish once.
<9> kosmo: ah, divide and conquer. good idea :^) but possibly tedious
<2> So write a quick C program to only unlink() the argument's file :)
<6> mod-: potentially. but it is a "simple" solution if you do not have strong shell-fu
<2> WOuld beat both rm and xargs
<6> mod-: and believe me, my shell-fu is weak.
<5> for x$ in [A-Z] ... is that legit shell-fu?
<11> Tamahome_: No. Ditch the $
<9> Tamahome_: no
<11> And the [A-Z] is kinda nonsense too ;)
<5> I haven't done any scripting since I had op.sys. cl*** a year ago
<9> anyway, the guy who originally asked doesn't seem to be interested any more, so...
<8> JackStorm, on an unloaded box, the find -exec method might seem faster, but it's not if there's any load
<9> ah, one last thing i just saw
<12> mod-: you naked in the mirror?
<5> for x in `ls [A-Z]*`
<5> that better?
<9> if one uses find2perl with -exec rm, find2perl special-cases it so that it internally calls unlink() instead of executing rm
<9> Tamahome_: suffers from the same problem
<9> so find2perl should be the best solution in this case
<9> kthxbye
<11> Tamahome_: You'ld still need to use xargs in conjunction with ls if the amount of files in the directory surp***ed the argument limit.
<5> ah
<13> hi
<14> Tamahome: it'll work if you're looking for filenames that start with A-Z, but only if they have no spaces.
<8> Tron, "if the length of the names of the files"
<14> and yeah, if there aren't too many for "for" to deal with
<14> if they've got spaces, just use for x in [A-Z]*; do something "$x"; done
<13> is Aspel comming installed by default with linux?
<14> optocus: aspell? Most distributions would install that, or at least have it on their CD or FTP site
<13> is it complicated to install on a usual web server configuration?
<13> comercial hosting
<13> i need to do a PHP spellchecker
<14> optocus: depends on the distribution, these days you just run a command like apt-get install aspell (on debian)
<13> ok
<15> sal zicetimi si mie o versiune de mirc pt linux
<14> errors-: in English?
<14> if someone else is hosting, ask them to install it, also, they may already have ispell installed again (ispell supports multiple languages)
<15> a version of mirc that works on linux
<5> you want xchat
<14> there isn't one, use a linux irc client like xchat or irssi
<4> fortunatly, there is no such thing.
<15> RelDrgn where can i get irssi or xchat ????
<5> from your distro vendor
<5> unless they're behind the times
<15> what is a distro vendor ?
<14> errors-: same place you got linux. They're going to be on the CDs or the FTP site. Read your distribution's directions.
<15> to much to read , don't have time
<15> :D
<5> not our problem.
<5> we're not here to babysit people, we expect them to read instructions
<15> haha
<5> cat keeps mewing at me and I'm trying to figure out what he wants... plenty of food and water out for him
<16> tama: one of my cats is like that, usually means he's trying to make up his attention quota.
<5> exel: ah.
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