Hi all, I added a chomp giving -
find . -type f|perl -ne 'chomp ; unlink||die "$_ : $!\n"' and it worked. Gary On Tuesday 28 May 2002 9:51 am, Gary Stainburn wrote: > On Tuesday 28 May 2002 9:42 am, Gary Stainburn wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Can anyone give me the one-liner to replace > > > > > > find . -type f -exec rm {} \; > > > > with > > > > find . -type f |perl -????????? > > > > to improve the speed when deleting a large squid cache > > sorry, I forgot to include how far I've got. Where's the closest I've got, > and the output I got: > > [gary@gary tmp]$ find . -type f|perl -ne 'unlink||die "cannot unlink $_: > $!"' cannot unlink ./1/a > > : No such file or directory at -e line 1, <> line 1. > > [gary@gary tmp]$ ll 1 > total 28 > -rw-rw-r-- 1 gary gary 6 May 28 09:47 a > -rw-rw-r-- 1 gary gary 6 May 28 09:47 b > -rw-rw-r-- 1 gary gary 6 May 28 09:47 c > -rw-rw-r-- 1 gary gary 6 May 28 09:47 d > -rw-rw-r-- 1 gary gary 6 May 28 09:47 e > -rw-rw-r-- 1 gary gary 6 May 28 09:47 f > -rw-rw-r-- 1 gary gary 6 May 28 09:47 g > [gary@gary tmp]$ -- Gary Stainburn This email does not contain private or confidential material as it may be snooped on by interested government parties for unknown and undisclosed purposes - Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, 2000 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]