On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 1:38 AM, Jude DaShiell <jdash...@shellworld.net> wrote: > Anyone heard of the unlink command?
unlink is slower than rm removing a 1.5GB file (at least on ext3): cbell@circe:~$ time rm test1 real 0m0.278s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.264s cbell@circe:~$ time unlink test2 real 0m0.375s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.364s cbell@circe:~$ But may provide some benefit when removing a large number (30000) of files (at least empty ones). cbell@circe:~/test$ time find rm -type f -exec rm {} \; real 0m48.127s user 1m32.926s sys 0m38.750s cbell@circe:~/test$ time find unlink -type f -exec unlink {} \; real 0m46.167s user 1m32.194s sys 0m39.346s cbell@circe:~/test$ I suspect that removing a large number of non-zero byte files will be slower with unlink than rm. -- Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOEVnYs3775N=sbvgto0y-odzrlnrj5t3bqrpjkt1fh5w7v...@mail.gmail.com