[nycbug-talk] Deleting Lots of Files.

N.J. Thomas njt at ayvali.org
Wed Jun 21 15:22:22 EDT 2006


* Marc Spitzer <mspitzer at gmail.com> [2006-06-21 15:11:22 -0400]:
> xargs may give you the same line too long error, it has happened to me
> on occasion, or it may work fine.  I had problems on solaris with it a
> while ago.

I get it occasionally as well, on a FreeBSD machine (IIRC). Using the -n
option is the fix.

Thomas

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