fast way to delete a directory recursively

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Subject: fast way to delete a directory recursively
From: Patrick Hsieh <pahud@pahud.net>
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 19:17:07 +0800
Message-id: <[🔎] 20020726191604.B56E.PAHUD@pahud.net>

Hello list,

I have some directories which are usually more than 10GB in size.
If I want to delete them immediately, is there any fast way except for
rm -rf <dir>?


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Patrick Hsieh <pahud@pahud.net>


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