[GRASS-user] g.mremove error: "Argument list too long"

[Moritz Lennert]

On 24/09/08 16:50, Rainer M Krug wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 4:01 PM, Daniel Victoria
> <daniel.victoria at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> How about separating it in smaller chunks.
>> Try 3 comands first
>> g.mremove -f rast=*
>> g.mremove -f vect=*
>> g.mremove -f region=*
> 
> That would not help much - all (except of a handfull of layers) are raster
>> If you still get "argument list to long" you will have to split the
>> rast/vect/region list once more. I don't know how your rasters are
>> named but, for example, remove all that starts with the letter a
>> g.remove -f rast=a*
> 
> That would be an option - but as it is used in a simulation, I don't
> know for sure that not to many starting with a are created.
> I therefore resorted to iterate through them:
> 
> for I in `g.mlist type=rast`;do g.remove $I; done
> 
> But in general, I would consider it a bug if an operation with
> wildcard results in an error when to many are selected. I will file a
> bug report for that.

There is a C replacement of the current scripts in the GRASS 6.x and 
GRASS 7.x development branches (see e.g. [1]).
Maybe you could just compile that and see if it solves the problem.


[1] 
http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass/branches/develbranch_6/general/g.mremove


Moritz