xargs takes back to the problem of mv only supporting a certain number
of arguments.
On 1/28/08, Hari Kurup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
>
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> Hari
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