How do you delete tmp files if file system is full becoz of /tmp dir ?

How do you delete tmp files if file system is full becoz of
/tmp dir ?

Question Posted / p.sekhar.1984

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How do you delete tmp files if file system is full becoz of /tmp dir ?..

Answer / deepak kumar

ls -l /tmp |grep *.tmp | awk {'print $9'} | xargs -i rm {}

or
find /tmp -name "*.tmp" -exec rm {}/?

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How do you delete tmp files if file system is full becoz of /tmp dir ?..

Answer / ole tange

The xargs solution is dangerous if names contain spaces. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xargs#The_separator_problem

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