On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Anupam Jain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 1:57 PM, Tanveer Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a directory called somedir
Inside this directory there are thousands of subdirectories(20,000+)
and even more number of small
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Tanveer Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Anupam Jain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 1:57 PM, Tanveer Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a directory called somedir
Inside this directory there
If you pipe your find output to xargs it will run a lot faster : find
somedir ¦ xargs rm -rf should make quick work of the files.
Justin
On Mon, 7 Apr 2008 4:57 am, Tanveer Singh wrote:
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Anupam Jain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 1:57 PM,
Tanveer Singh wrote:
Currently I do this
mv somedir somedir.old
find somedir.old -name * -exec rm -rf {} \;
I was hoping for some quick delete kind of stuff.
What filesystem is this on ? if its ext3 you can change your drive cache
policy, disable index's, disable time updates etc (
