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/bin/rm: Argument list too long tmp/sessions/ruby_sess.*

Well this happens when there are too many files to process:

Best way in this case is to do batch processing:

Sample command:

find . -name 'ruby_sess.*' -print0 | xargs -0 rm

This was written by Vivek Khokhar. Posted on Thursday, December 6, 2007, at 5:25 pm. Filed under Linux, Rails, Ruby. Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Post a comment or leave a trackback.

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