Question

I have the following command which deletes files that are one day old and that are of mp3 file type.

find /home/get/public_html/audio -daystart -maxdepth 1 -mtime +1  -type f -name '*.mp3' |xargs rm -f 

The problem with this is when I run it, it sometimes says,

‘fork’: resource xargs not available.

Does this mean this command first finds the file and then starts many process to delete each file?

How can I (when a file is found) immediately delete it rather than it being piped to xargs?

^{I can’t use that -delete (‘invalid predicate’).}

Answer 1

what about trying:

 find /home/get/public_html/audio -daystart -maxdepth 1 -mtime +1      -type f -name '*.mp3' -exec rm -f {} \;