On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Doug Barton <do...@freebsd.org> wrote: > >>> chflags -R noschg /usr/obj/usr >>> rm -rf /usr/obj/usr > > It's much faster to do: > > /bin/rm -rf ${obj}/* 2> /dev/null || /bin/chflags -R 0 ${obj}/* && > /bin/rm -rf ${obj}/*
+1. And it's faster yet when you can run parallel copies of rm on different portions of the directory tree (e.g. xargs, find [..] -exec) as rm is O(n). Cheers, -Garrett _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"