rmdir limitation to 3192 directories

Earnie Boyd earnie@users.sourceforge.net
Fri Aug 24 17:55:00 GMT 2012


On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 7:58 AM, genonceauxwrote:

>
> I try to delete empty directories with this command : "/bin/find /path
> -depth -type d -empty -execdir rmdir \{\} \;"

If you change this to

/bin/find /path -depth -type d -empty -delete

>
> If the number of empty directories to remove greater than 3192, I have the
> following message for the directories to remove remaining :
> "Bad file descriptor"

do you still get this?

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