Re: [fedora-list] What the hell are these dirs?
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> BTW, I'm running this command, as suggested by an earlier poster:
>
> find . -type f -exec rm -fv '{}' +
This is extremely inefficient. It spawns a process for every file.
With as many files as you have this will take days.
This is better:
find . -type f -print0 |xargs -r -0 rm -f
It spawns a process as if fills up the maximum size command line.
Probably hundreds of times faster than the original.
or this:
find . -depth -type d -print0 |xargs -r -0 rm -Rf
Which deletes directories and is much faster than the previous.
but I expect this is best:
find . -depth -delete
or if you want to see them fly on you screen
find . -depth -print -delete
Your original find did not delete the directories, just the files in
them. Is that what you want? Or did you want to delete the directories
as well. If you want to preserve the directory structure, then this is
probably what you want:
find . -depth -type f -delete
or
find . -depth -type f -print -delete
to watch them go away.
Good luck
Rich
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Re: [fedora-list] What the hell are these dirs?
On 09-07-26 08:32:08, Rich Mahn wrote:
> ===snip
>
> > BTW, I'm running this command, as suggested by an earlier poster:
> >
> > find . -type f -exec rm -fv '{}' +
>
> This is extremely inefficient. It spawns a process for every file.
Not so. Better for you to read `man find` before posting.
> With as many files as you have this will take days.
...
The slow part of what he did is the "v".
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Re: [fedora-list] What the hell are these dirs?
On Sun, 2009-07-26 at 09:30 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote: > > With as many files as you have this will take days. > ... > > The slow part of what he did is the "v". Yes, very true. I did it to make sure files were being deleted, and to see if there was anything other than jpegs. I should have stopped it and removed the "v" once I was satisfied. Anyway, it's gone now. Unfortunately, even without out the "-v", I've barely made a dent. This is going to take a long, long, long time. Regards, Ranbir -- Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu Linux 2.6.27.25-170.2.72.fc10.x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux 10:12:44 up 2 days, 1:39, 3 users, load average: 1.44, 1.71, 2.31 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: [fedora-list] What the hell are these dirs?
Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote: > Anyway, it's gone now. Unfortunately, even without out the "-v", I've > barely made a dent. This is going to take a long, long, long time. and you are still using 2 programs to do deletions, so it is going to take a long time. if you do not have them removed by now, i suggest you follow what i wrote in other post of 'Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 08:15:45 +'. you can prove this by opening a virtual terminal and run 'df' at a 1 min intervals with your current 'find/rm'. after about 5 displays 'df', to end your 'find/rm', then do a drag and drop of; rm -fR [0-9]*;rm -fR [a-l]*;rm -fR [m-z]*;rm -fR [A-L]*;rm -fR [M-Z]* into a virtual terminal and run it. from a 2nd vt, run 'df' as above and you should see a greater size change. only problem you will have, as i mentioned before, you may have to change to span within the '[ ]'. you can set up a 'for i' loop and pass 0-9, A-Z, a-z as $i, 'rm -fR [$i]*'. and if you like, you can add 'df /dev/sdx', 'x' being drive/partition that files are on and see that you are deleting. one note of reasoning, if there are several hundred/thousand of files that start with '$i' you may need a double loop '[$i$j]' to get files with out have 'too many files' error. -- peace out. tc,hago. g . in a free world without fences, who needs gates. ** help microsoft stamp out piracy - give linux to a friend today. ** to mess up a linux box, you need to work at it. to mess up an ms windows box, you just need to *look* at it. ** learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ 'LDP HOWTO-index' http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/index.html 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
