OSX argument list too long; Sigh
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OSX argument list too long; Sigh
Oct 2, 2019
The longer you do computing, the more you find that the same out issues come up. I'm currently working on a machine with 16 gigs of RAM and a terabyte of SSD storage but when I list files in a directory, I still get "argument list too long". The problem here is that I have a series of directories that collectively have 552 gigs of data in them (a crawler I wrote either worked successfully or ran amok; your opinion may vary).
I woke up this morning and realized that I couldn't move over to my machine the zst archive I needed since it was 15 gigs in size and I had only 24 gigs total (too close to my threshold for my taste).
I ended up coming up with this command line snippet to address this:
find . -maxdepth 1 -name '*.html' -delete
I had to change into each directory where these files existed and run it one by one.
If I wanted to make this recursive then I could have started in the parent directory tree with this:
find . -name '*.html' -exec rm -f {} \;
but that felt riskier… Here's a relevant Stack Overflow on this.
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