Re: Delete 4 million files
2009/3/18 Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de>:
> 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?
worse reading
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>
> 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.
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