topic Re: Message Error in Operating System - HP-UX

Message Error

Orlando De Oliveira R — Tue, 13 Jul 2004 10:10:50 GMT

Hi,

When executing some of the following commands
chmod" 775 *
rm *

on some directory it deploys me the following message:

sh: / usr/bin/chmod: The parameter list is too long.

That it can be happening?

Operating systems UX 10.20 HP 9000 D390

Thank you,

Orlando

Re: Message Error

RAC_1 — Tue, 13 Jul 2004 10:14:45 GMT

There are too many file that your are trying to remove, chnage the perms.

getconf ARG_MAX
This is causing the problem.

DO it as follows.

chmod xxx [a-fA-F]*
rm -f [a-fA-F]*

You can also dit it as follows.

find . -type f |xargs rm/chmod

Anil

Re: Message Error

MarkSyder — Tue, 13 Jul 2004 10:16:16 GMT

You have too large a number of files in the directory for the command to cope with.

Try (for example):

chmod 775 a* followed by b* etc.

I'm sure you can group letters together to reduce the number of times you need to type the command, but I'm not 100% on the syntax. It's something like:

chmod 775 [a-b]*

Mark Syder (like the drink but spelt different)