When Anydisk or mount point is full in linux, you need to delete files. You can get ” -bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long ” error during remove files.
bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long
You want to delete all audit files which are .aud extension like following.
[root@MehmetSalih audit]# rm -rf *aud -bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long
Argument list too long
But you got ” -bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long ” error, to solve this problem you can use following command.
[root@MehmetSalih audit]# find . -name "*aud" -print | xargs rm -rf
You can change *aud extension to the *trc or *trm. You can delete all trc extension files like following if their argument list too long.
[root@MehmetSalih audit]# find . -name "*trc" -print | xargs rm -rf
[root@MehmetSalih audit]# find . -name "*trm" -print | xargs rm -rf [root@MehmetSalih audit]# find . -name "*.log" -print | xargs rm -rf
You can also use Following solutions to solve this problem.
find . -name "*aud" -delete
find . -type f -name "FILE-TO-FIND" -exec rm -f {} \;
find . -name "*aud" -print | xargs rm -rf
for file in *; do rm -f $file;done or (if you want to delete also directories) for file in *; do rm -rf $file;done