ls: terminated by signal 13 when using xargs

Question

I\'m using the following command to delete four largest size files in a folder:

find \"/var/www/site1/\" -maxdepth 1 -type f | xargs ls -1S | head -n 4 | xar         


        

Answer 1

You are purposely terminating your program with head -n 4, which creates the broken pipe because you terminated it before the "caller" finished. Since this is expected by you, you can ignore the error by redirecting it to /dev/null which discards it:

find "/var/www/site1/" -maxdepth 1 -type f | xargs ls -1S | head -n 4 | xargs -d '\n' rm -f 2>/dev/null