On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 23:04, C. Linus Hicks wrote: > > Why not just: > > find . -exec rm {} \;
It's super, super, extremely slow. rm is exec'd for every file to be removed, where it's invoked as few times as possible using: find . -print | xargs rm xargs job here is to build as long a list of args as is allowed by the system, and run rm. _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list