On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Marc Shapiro wrote: > jc wrote: > > > > rm -rf --verbose to see what is being done > > I know that the OP was interested in some indication of progress, but I > also know that I would not want to watch 4 million file names scroll > across the terminal. Also, displaying that much output is going to slow > the job down and make it take even longer than it is already taking.
If you know the count, Pipe Viewer can give you a progress meter: $ rm -frv dir | pv -l -s 4000000 > /dev/null 546k 0:00:02 [ 886/s ] [========> ] 36% ETA 0:00:03 cd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
