Hi.
On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 09:41:58AM +0000, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 05:28:16AM +0100, Tazman Deville wrote:
> > find . -name 'popularity-*' | xargs rm -rf
>
> Sorry, opportunity for a bit of golf. Find has a built-in for deleting
> files:
>
> > find . -type f -name 'popularity-*' -delete
>
> I'd also be rather wary of invoking rm -rf with the results of find
> output.
If you're unsure (and you should!) if filenames contain spaces, that
should more appopriate.
find . -type f -name 'popularity-*' -print0 | xargs -0rn 20 rm -f
Arguably the fastest way to delete all this mess should be
perl -e 'for(<popularity-*>){((stat)[9]<(unlink))}'
Reco
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