[ubuntu-in] Strange problem with too many jpg files in one folder

[Jkhatri]

On Wednesday 25 August 2010 01:55 PM, Ritesh Sinha wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Ramnarayan.K<ramnarayan.k at gmail.com>  wrote:
>    
>> Hi
>>
>> I accidently deleted a folder of images( using shift+del = direct
>> delete not to trash)
>>
>> To recover them i used recoverjpg
>>
>> The problem is that that recoverjpg recovered many many images. The
>> drive it was reading from was 200 gig which had tonnes of images,
>> thumbnails etc on it . Recoverjpg looks and tries to recover deleted
>> filed.
>>
>> I had been using various image managers to create thumbnails and such
>> thumbnails are in lakhs
>>
>> recoverjpg placed the recovered files in my /home/foouser/ location
>>
>> Now this damn folder does not open because there are too many files in that
>>
>> I am un able to see and access this folder and any tool from command
>> line gives up with the arguement
>>
>> unable to execute /bin/mv: Argument list too long
>>
>> whether is mv or chmod i get the same error message
>>
>> My problem is that there are too many thumbnails under 100 kb - i can
>> safely del this but don't know a specific command that will do this
>>      

Use or modify  following script ---- This will find the file less then 
100kb ( you can use lt or = also )  -- give you the list of that files 
and if you say "YES" it will delete that file ------


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##/bin/bash -x

dir_to_clean=$1



cd $1
ls -l | awk '{if ($5 < 100) print ("rm -f " $8)}' > rmscript.sh
chmod +x rmscript.sh
echo "The following files less the 100 will be removed:"
cat rmscript.sh


echo -n "Proceed? [y/n]: "
read response
if [ "$response" = "y" ]
then
sh rmscript.sh
fi

rm -rf rmscript.sh
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