Re: Delete 4 million files

[Chris Davies <chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk>]

Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir@cohens.org.il> wrote:
> At this point I wanted to write "well, one thing you you can optimize
> away is the sorting of the 4M files that find does. To disable it, use -".
> But I could not find such an option.

That's because find doesn't sort. It generates the files in directory
entry order. Proof:

    mkdir /tmp/t
    cd /tmp/t
    touch a
    touch d
    touch c
    touch b
    find . -print

I'll leave it to you to discover why the files aren't (necessarily)
printed in the order they were created.

Chris