Re: Delete 4 million files

[Emanoil Kotsev <deloptes@yahoo.com>]

Chris Davies wrote:

> 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

Just curious - why would you use sort before deleting something?

regards