wildcard expansion bug?

[crp]

[root@rh5 old]# ls -ltr *[s-U].ps
-bash: /bin/ls: Argument list too long
[root@rh5 old]# ls -ltr *S.ps
ls: *S.ps: No such file or directory
[root@rh5 old]# ls -ltr *T.ps
ls: *T.ps: No such file or directory
[root@rh5 old]# ls -ltr *U.ps
ls: *U.ps: No such file or directory
[root@rh5 old]# ls -l *[s-U].ps
-bash: /bin/ls: Argument list too long
ls: *S.ps: No such file or directory
You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/root
[root@rh5 old]# ls -l *T.ps
ls: *T.ps: No such file or directory
[root@rh5 old]# ls -l *U.ps
ls: *U.ps: No such file or directory

Can anyone explain this? provide a work-around?

[V.T. Eric Layton]

THIS may answer your question.

[crp]

THIS may answer your question.

That is what I did after the S-U said too many.

hmm,

the echo trick worked for some things.

 

How can i use the echo *| to check to see if file is older than 95 days and delete it if so?

(basically, how do i replicate functionalaty of find *[s-U].ps -ctime +135 | xargs rm)

Edited September 29, 2014 by crp

[V.T. Eric Layton]

Sorry, crp. I'm no bash scripting guru. Can't help you beyond basics.

[securitybreach]

Check the first solution here: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/22674/shell-script-for-moving-oldest-files

 

It explains it better than I could. BTW make sure that you leave the *.ps because you may start removing installation files. Personally I wouldn't run the command as root.