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0 pointsa_bonobo7y ago0 comments

This blew my mind recently, when I had to delete millions of files in a directory and rm didn't make the cut (too many arguments), and find -delete took forever:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/79656

perl -e 'for(<*>){((stat)[9]<(unlink))}'

seems to be the fastest possible way to delete enormous amounts of files

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mkl7y ago

Did you try xargs, to do groups of files at once? That's what I usually do:

  find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 rm

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