http://shinephp.com/community/tags/rm General Web development, PHP, MySQL, WordPress and its plugins discussions en-US Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:00:49 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://shinephp.com/community/search.php http://shinephp.com/community/topic/how-to-delete-a-huge-quant-of-files-at-once#post-7 Sun, 07 Mar 2010 03:57:29 +0000 vladimir 7@http://shinephp.com/community/ <p>This trick will help</p> <div class="bb_syntax"><div class="code"><pre class="shell" style="font-family:monospace;">find . -maxdepth 1 -name 'cache_*' -exec rm {} \;</pre></div></div> <p>This way 'rm' command will delete files one by one according to 'find' command search results. If you wish to delete all files in the directory tree at the current '.' directory remove '-maxdepth 1' option from 'find' command.</p> <p>This variant will help also</p> <div class="bb_syntax"><div class="code"><pre class="shell" style="font-family:monospace;">ls cache_* | xargs rm</pre></div></div> http://shinephp.com/community/topic/how-to-delete-a-huge-quant-of-files-at-once#post-5 Sun, 07 Mar 2010 03:49:47 +0000 garvs 5@http://shinephp.com/community/ <p>I tried to delete a few thousands files with one<br /> <code>rm cache_*</code><br /> command. But it returned error message that 'Argument list too long'. Can you advice how to resolve this issue? </p>