Re: Delete 4 million files
On Wed Mar 18, 2009 at 16:37:53 +0000, kj wrote:
> Now, I've been running the usual find . -type f -exec rm {} \;
> but this is going at about 700,000 per day. Would simply doing an rm
> -rf on the Maildir be quicker? Or is there a better way?
That executes /bin/rm for each file group. YOu might find it
faster if you don't cause find to execute a /bin/rm command at all.
Instead try:
find . -type -f -delete
Steve
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