/bin/rm: cannot execute [Argument list too long]

Hey all!

Just a quickie and useful thing today. How many times you found this?

/bin/rm: cannot execute [Argument list too long]

Ok, so, first thing: Is it related to Oracle logs? If so, you may want to ADCRI. Check this post for more info: ADRCI Retention Policy and Ad-Hoc Purge Script for all Bases.

If not, you may solve this using find with rm. Ok, but want to keep the most recent files?

Some examples for you, removing audit files:

# Remove older then 1 day:

find /oracle/greporadb/admin/greporadb/adump -name "*.aud" -mtime +1 -exec rm {} \;

# Remove older then 1 hour:

find /oracle/greporadb/admin/greporadb/adump -name "*.aud" -cmin +60 -exec rm {} \;

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Finding Trace Files Being Written Right Now!

Hey!
I was not sure on the title for this post, but I bet everyone, at least once, needed to know which file is being modified at this exact moment in your filesystem/server.

Some days ago I noticed something was making my filesystem full. I cleared some gigas in logs from Diag Home but the space gone 100% very quickly. What is consuming the space?
Easy:

1. Create a new file.

$ touch a.log

2. Find everything newer than this file.

$ find . -newer a.log

Here you go!

In my situation, after finding this, I noticed there was a session in a bug situation generating thousands of messages on trace file.
Killed the session, got part of the messages, cleared file. Issue solved.

Hope it helps!