Timeline for Efficiently delete large directory containing thousands of files
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| Apr 26, 2012 at 13:50 | comment | added | digital_infinity |
Yes, you are right. Here is a note from man xargs : (...) max-chars characters per command line (...). The largest allowed value is system-dependent, and is calculated as the argument length limit for exec. So -n option is for such cases where xargs cannot determine the CLI buffer size or if the executed command has some limits.
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| Apr 26, 2012 at 13:41 | comment | added | Useless |
You probably don't need the -n 20 bit, since xargs should limit itself to acceptable argument-list sizes anyway.
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| Apr 26, 2012 at 8:20 | history | answered | digital_infinity | CC BY-SA 3.0 |