myisamchk: Argument list too long

When repairing a large database, i got following error

[root@server root]# myisamchk --silent --force --fast --update-state \
          --key_buffer_size=64M --sort_buffer_size=64M \
          --read_buffer_size=1M --write_buffer_size=1M /var/lib/mysql/databasename/*.MYI
-bash: /usr/bin/myisamchk: Argument list too long

To fix the error, run

SOLUTION 1

find /backup/mysql/bizhat_s2 -type f -print0 -name '*.MYI' | xargs -0 myisamchk --force --fast --update-state --key_buffer_size=64M --sort_buffer_size=64M --read_buffer_size=1M --write_buffer_size=1M

SOLUTION 2

find /var/lib/mysql/databasename -name *.MYI -exec myisamchk -r {} \;

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