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.
I think piping it through xargs would be faster? This one calls 'rm' for
every single file.
--
Hari
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