[huskerlug] Re: I ran into my first case of having too many files to rm on.
- From: Martin Wolff <mwolffedu@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: huskerlug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2010 23:03:33 -0500
Sweet, thanks everyone! I'll keep your ideas in the back of my head in case
something like this comes up again.
It is also good to have a confirmation on the speed of the delete. I wasn't
sure if it was because my method was slow or if it was a characteristic of
the filesystem. When I said the ~11 GB "took forever" I should have said it
"took roughly 12 minutes"
Thanks,
Martin
On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 7:46 AM, MLS <mls@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Not sure about the speed, but when wildcarding fails... Find is your
> friend.
>
> To remove everything in the current dir...
> # find . -exec rm -f {} \;
>
> To remove all txt files...
> # find . -name '*.txt' -exec rm -f {} \;
>
> On 6/3/10, Martin Wolff <mwolffedu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I thought this might be an interesting discussion.
> >
> > Today, for the first time, I ran into a situation where GNU program
> > couldn't
> > handle me. I had run "rm ./*" on a directory and it failed because it
> had
> > too many arguments (more than 100,000 files existed.).
> > I then realized that I could just delete the directory just by doing rm
> -r
> > directorynamehere
> > It was only 11 GB in size, but it took forever to delete. I was just
> > curious
> > if there were any obvious things I should have done differently. Perhaps
> > there is a better way to trash > 138,000 files?
> >
> >
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