Re: [LUAU] How do you delete over 500,000 files in a directory

[Hawaii Linux Institute]

Jim Thompson wrote:

or cut down on the amount of globbing that the shell does in any one pass.

If all the files end in a number, (and the numbers are well-distributed)

#!/bin/bash
i="0"
while [ $i -le 9 ]
do
echo mgetty*$i | xargs rm -f
i=$[$i+1]
done

Didn't realize you already answered the question Jim.  Wayne