Re: Delete 4 million files
> 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?
While rm -rf would certainly be quicker and is obviously preferred
when you want to remove everything in the directory, the find version
could be speeded significantly by using xargs, i.e.,
find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 rm
This is especially useful if you want to remove files selecticely
instead of everything at once.
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Tapani Tarvainen
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