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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