The last time I tried something similar (4 years ago) it works pretty
well with one limitation. Bash (and other shells) won't take more than
256 (i think) arguments so you'd have to find . -type f -exec rm '{}'
';' or similar.
That would work but I'm not sure how long it would actually take.
Patrick.
On 26 Jan 2008, at 10:07, Kiggundu Mukasa wrote:
Wonder how it will do on linux?
Anyone game?
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Date: January 25, 2008 12:58:09 PM GMT+03:00
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Subject: Large number of files. Single directory
Hi ,
checkout this guys problem. Tried it on my PC with 5,000,000 , and
it just got burnt. Literally
http://www.joe0.com/2006/08/31/why-it-takes-30-minutes-to-delete-nothing/
Fred
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