Enrico Weigelt: > * Jochen Schulz <m...@well-adjusted.de> schrieb: > >> - You are starting an rm process for every file to delete. You can end >> the command with "+" instead of "\;" to make find pass as many files >> to rm as possible. If you delete many files that way, that may make a >> big difference spped-wise. > > But you have to be careful that the command line doesnt get too long.
No, find does that for you.
> If you're really concerned about perfomance, you could use busybox
> (with all commands compiled-in) as shell do write your script this way:
>
> do_rm() {
> while read FILE ; do rm -fr $FILE ; done
> }
That won't work with spaces in filenames. :) "find … -exec" or "find …
-print0 | xargs -0" are the best ways to do this. Apart from "find …
-delete" which I regularly forget. :)
J.
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