/bin/rm: Argument list too long. Error for deletion of Audit files

Priyanka Bisht

5 years ago

Sometimes when we try to delete the large numbers of audit files, we get the error “/bin/rm: Argument list too long“.

Run the below command using your audit home location:

find /u01/app/oracle/admin/mydb/adump \( -name "*.aud" -a -type f \) -mtime +3 -print -exec rm -f {} \;

1	find /u01/app/oracle/admin/mydb/adump \( -name "*.aud" -a -type f \) -mtime +3 -print -exec rm -f {} \;

Note: you can use this command for other log files also like trace file(.trc).