Re: Too many subdirectories

[Dan Brosemer <dbroseme@sm2141.glfc.forestry.ca>]

On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, Sami Dalouche wrote:

> I made a c program :
> 
> #include <stdio.h>
> main()
> {
> int nbr=0;
> while(1)
> 	{
> 	printf("%d\n",nbr+=1);
> 	mkdir ("x");
> 	chdir ("x");
> 	}
> exit(0);
> }

I hate to ask, but... why???  I duplicated this for the sake of making
sure this script would work, and it brought my system to it's knees.

> My problem is that there is now too many subdirectories (10,000) and rm said
> " Memory exhausted " when I type 
> rm -rf x
> Does anyone know of a C script which can suppress all these directories ?
> Thanks.

This should do it but it'll take forever

#!/bin/sh
while [ -d 'x' ] ; do
  mv x/x x1
  rmdir x
  mv x1 x
done

just put that in a text file, chmod it to 755 and run it.

Good luck.

-Dano