On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Anupam Jain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 1:57 PM, Tanveer Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I have a directory called "somedir"
> > Inside this directory there are thousands of subdirectories(20,000+)
> > and even more number of small files(100,000+)
> > If I do a \rm -rf somedir, it takes hours.
> > Is there a way to quickly delete this directory.
> > Currently I use Konqueror and it does the job more quickly, but still
> > its pretty slow.
>
> 1) You can run the process in the background so that you can still do
> other work.
> OR
> 2) use the --directory option which will unlink the directory even if
> it's non empty. But in this case the system will recursively unlink
> all the files the next time you run fsck and you'll have to wait a
> long time then.
>
> Basically if you want to do something NOW which expects the directory
> to not be there, go with option 2. Else stick to the usual option 1.
>
> -- Anupam
Currently I do this
mv somedir somedir.old
find somedir.old -name "*" -exec rm -rf {} \;
I was hoping for some "quick delete" kind of stuff.
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