Too many audit logs? xargs to the rescue!

After watching a client pipe the results of a find command into a text file, and then edit the text file to add rm in front of each line and then turn the text file into a script and run it… I knew I needed to add this here.

Sometimes you have too many audit logs and rm *.aud returns the following:

-bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long

If so, we can use xargs to remove them all:

find . -type f -name '*.aud' | xargs rm

Happy Linux’ing.