On Jan 28, 2008 11:55 AM, Patrick Okui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> you'd have to find . -type f -exec rm '{}' ';' or similar.
>
not long ago i had this headache, rm would crumble with a little over 1000
files in a dir. Using find -type f -exec rm ..... just like what Patrick
pointed out sorted me out. I had about 1600 files, each about 50MB in size
and i was able to remove them all in under 10 minutes
--
Mike
Of course, you might discount this possibility, but remember that one in
a million chances happen 99% of the time.
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