On 23-Nov-1999, zdrysdal@diagnostic.co.nz <zdrysdal@diagnostic.co.nz> wrote:
> Hi
>
> does anyone happen to know of a quicker way of deleting 40000 files out of
> a directory other than the command "find . -exec rm {} \;"
>
> will rm -r <directory> be as quick?
>
rm -rf *
Just make sure that you are in the correct directory when you do it,
because this will not prompt you.
Pete