If you pipe your find output to xargs it will run a lot faster : find
somedir ¦ xargs rm -rf should make quick work of the files.
Justin
On Mon, 7 Apr 2008 4:57 am, Tanveer Singh wrote:
> 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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