Jim Thompson wrote:
You're going to be hitting 'y' for a long time. Lets say you can get
10/second, thats 50,000 seconds, or the better part of 12 hours.
I will always use the rm command with ultimate care, especially when
removing a large number of files. Typically I use the mv command (to a
dump directory) instead (as the first stage of a two-stage process):
for i in m*; do mv m* ~/dump; done
Thereafter, if things look OK, use the rm -rf ~/dump command to remove
all the files (second stage). This process is reversible. If anything
screws up, you can always move the files back. Wayne
