On 23-Nov-1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > does anyone happen to know of a quicker way of deleting 40000 files out of > a directory other than the command "find . -exec rm {} \;" > > will rm -r <directory> be as quick? > rm -rf *
Just make sure that you are in the correct directory when you do it, because this will not prompt you. Pete