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 {} \;