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?
As already said, this calls rm for every file. Another alternative is with newer
versions of find:
find . -type f -exec rm {} \+
This calls rm for as many files as fit on the command line.
But probably "rm -rf" is the fastest.
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Regards,
Jörg-Volker.