Re: Delete 4 million files

[Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>]

jc wrote:
> rm -rf --verbose to see what is being done
>
>   
yeah, but that can slow things up tremendously - whatever is being 
written to becomes a bottleneck

you might try:

rm -rf --verbose >some_file

that would run a lot faster and you can always cat the file to see 
what's going on (or tail)


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