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Old 04-10-2008, 08:36 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Belisarius View Post
Can't you just go up a directory then "rm -rf <dir>"?

Barring that, redhead's idea would be my next choice.
no, that's why i needed an alternative. 650,000 files is too many for rm to handle.

find was taking forever. ls | xargs completed within a minute.
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