Re: arg list too long in unix

>
> If the arg list is too long, one way to shorten it is with 'head'.
>
> find /dir_2_clean -name "cz*" -print | head -1000 | xargs rm -f

The whole point of xargs is that it doesn't get overlong arguments -- unless one of the file paths is > 4KB by itself. This leaves the "head" extraneous:

    cd $someplace;
    find . -type f -name 'cz*' | xargs rm -f;

will happily do the deed.

Advantage to cd is that a naked '.' won't blow off the entire system via something like '/ dir_2_clean'.

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