Re: Messages don't get deleted

[Harald Hanche-Olsen]

+ Peter Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

| On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 08:27:31PM +0200, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:
| > | Hello System,
| > | > can anybody help me delete around 25000 messages from [...]
| >   find . -type f -print | xargs rm -f
| 
| Or just:
| 
|   find . -type f -exec rm -f {} \;

At the price of 25000 fork/exec pairs, yes.

| YMMV,

Indeed.  xargs exists for precisely this reason.
(Have we scared that NT guy sufficiently yet?)

- Harald