Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:
Anyway, it's gone now. Unfortunately, even without out the -v, I've
barely made a dent. This is going to take a long, long, long time.
and you are still using 2 programs to do deletions, so it is going to
take a long time.
if you do not have them removed by now,
===snip
BTW, I'm running this command, as suggested by an earlier poster:
find . -type f -exec rm -fv '{}' +
This is extremely inefficient. It spawns a process for every file.
With as many files as you have this will take days.
This is better:
find . -type f -print0 |xargs -r -0 rm -f
On 09-07-26 08:32:08, Rich Mahn wrote:
===snip
BTW, I'm running this command, as suggested by an earlier poster:
find . -type f -exec rm -fv '{}' +
This is extremely inefficient. It spawns a process for every file.
Not so. Better for you to read `man find` before posting.
On Sun, 2009-07-26 at 09:30 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote:
With as many files as you have this will take days.
...
The slow part of what he did is the v.
Yes, very true. I did it to make sure files were being deleted, and to
see if there was anything other than jpegs. I should have stopped it
