Removing older files OEL 4.5 Erro

Question

Dear all,
I have some problem to remove older file in my OEL 4.5,
Actually our local Oracle Ebiz Instance mount point filled, it because of the old concurrent request files.
then i found that its very huge in size around 5Gb, if i delete one by one its very difficult, more over i should not delete last 15 days files. so i cant simply issue _rm -rf *_ command.
i issued this following command
find /ebiz1/prodappl/inst/apps/DEV01_ibm/logs/appl/conc/log/*.req -mtime -15 -exec rm -f {} \;
i am sure this is the correct command to remove older than 15 days. is in it, but after issuing this command i am getting this following errror..
*$find /ebiz1/prodappl/inst/apps/DEV01_ibm/logs/appl/conc/log/*.req -mtime 10 -exec rm -f {} \;*
-bash: /usr/bin/find: Argument list too long+
why this is happening,, i hope it because of large number files ? is it correct,, if it how to delete the older files which are burden to my server.
Regards
Hameed

Answer 1

Hameed wrote:
find /ebiz1/prodappl/inst/apps/DEV01_ibm/logs/appl/conc/log/*.req -mtime -15 -exec rm -f {} \;
why this is happening,, i hope it because of large number files ? is it correct,, if it how to delete the older files which are burden to my server.There is a shell limit in bash for arguments on the command line. Not just the actual count of arguments, but the length of each arguments is also a factor. This is only a problem for the "*" expansion in your command there. What you should be doing is something like the following:
find /ebiz/prodappl/inst/apps/DEV01_ibm/apply/conc/log/ -name "*.req" -mtime -15 -exec rm -vf {} \;
You want the find command to use it's matching abilities, not the shell. Find will look at everything from that path down and do its matching vs the shell limiting the number of files to pass to find. If what you're currently doing were to work it would be no better than using the ls command.