probelm whit rm

[Jose Ramirez_6]

Hi.

I have a problem when i want erase full files of type
-rw-r--r-- 1 nsuser nsgroup 76680 28 mai 13:24 W1784107.tif

and i execute the following command.

sdmadr1:/u2/imagenes >rm ./*.tif

the system request whit the message.

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

thank you.
JRM

[Stefan Farrelly · Accepted solution]

Use find instead;

cd
find . -name "*.tif" -exec rm {} \;

[Helen French]

Try these:

# cd directroy_name
# rm *tif

OR

# find . -name "*tif" -exec rm {} \;

Use -i option if needed for confirmation !

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

try

# for i in $(ls *.tif)
>do
>rm $i
>done

There must be a large number of files...

Later,
Bill

[MANOJ SRIVASTAVA]

Hi Jose


There seem to be lots of files adreesed by *.rif , you can use find as suggested or
find . -name "*.tif" -exec rm {} \;

should do the trick


Manoj Srivastava

[PIYUSH D. PATEL]

Hi,

rm -i *.tif

It will ask for confirmation also

Piyush

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

The shell is doing filename expansion and the list is longer than allowed. A good way to circumvent this is to use 'find' and 'xargs' to process "bundles" of files at once. This is "cheaper" than using 'find's 'exec' option since a smaller number of processes are spawned:

# find . -name "*.tif"|xargs -L 500 -i rm {}

This will process 500 files at a time until the list is exhausted.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Heiner E. Lennackers]

i think the shorts method would be:
echo ./*.tif | xargs rm


but you will have problem with it, if you have filenames with blanks or special characters in your list. then you can use:
ls -1 | grep [.]tif$ | xargs -i rm "{}"
or
find . -name \*.tif -exec rm {} \;
Be aware that the find-method will delete not only the files in the current dir, but also in all subdirs.

Heiner