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.




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