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

[Rainer M Krug]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 9:13 AM, Moritz Lennert
<mlennert at club.worldonline.be> wrote:
> 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
>

Thanks - I'll do so on a later stage. For now I am iteratting...

Rainer

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