Actually this is a pretty much normal thing especially in Telecoms where you
get large numbers of CDRs. Usually all the CDRs for a whole month are sitting
in one folder. The find trick generally works perfectly.
However that fella failed to consider that while the files may actually be
zero sized, they take up inodes and use up other file system resources which
resources need to be released when you decide to delete all of them so it may
not be as nice as unix but expecting it to take zero time is also rather
unrealistic as well imho.
Noah.
On Monday 28 January 2008 11:55, Patrick Okui wrote:
> The last time I tried something similar (4 years ago) it works pretty
> well with one limitation. Bash (and other shells) won't take more than
> 256 (i think) arguments so you'd have to find . -type f -exec rm '{}'
> ';' or similar.
>
> That would work but I'm not sure how long it would actually take.
>
> Patrick.
>
> On 26 Jan 2008, at 10:07, Kiggundu Mukasa wrote:
> > Wonder how it will do on linux?
> > Anyone game?
> >
> > Begin forwarded message:
> >> From: "
> >> Date: January 25, 2008 12:58:09 PM GMT+03:00
> >> To:
> >> Subject: Large number of files. Single directory
> >>
> >> Hi ,
> >> checkout this guys problem. Tried it on my PC with 5,000,000 , and
> >> it just got burnt. Literally
> >>
> >>
> >> http://www.joe0.com/2006/08/31/why-it-takes-30-minutes-to-delete-nothing
> >>/
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Fred
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