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Friday, July 17, 2009

-bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long


In our production box while cleaning the archivelog file (manually) I received the below error and not able to delete , even though it is not related to oracle error but linux so worth to post in blog.

[oracle@PROD PROD_archivelog1]$ rm -rf *.dbf
-bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long

Reason:
[oracle@PROD PROD_archivelog1]$ du -h
50G .
becuase folder size is too big (50gb) that is why system is not allowing to delete.

Solution: found on google :)
[oracle@PROD PROD_archivelog1]$ find . -name '*.dbf' | xargs rm
Source:http://www.simplehelp.net/2009/02/18/linux-tip-overcoming-the-binrm-argument-list-too-long-error/

Result:
[oracle@PROD PROD_archivelog1]$ du -sh
5.5M .

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

In it something is. Thanks for the information, can, I too can help you something?