On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Peter Ross wrote:
> On 23-Nov-1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > does anyone happen to know of a quicker way of deleting 40000 files out of
> > a directory other than the command "find . -exec rm {} \;"
> >
> > will rm -r <directory> be as quick?
> >
> rm -rf *
That's something I *never* do. Why? Because it puts "rm -rf *" in my
history buffer which means that one slip can lead to disaster. So I use
rm -rf /here/there/some/place/* which at least means I cannot blow away my
whole file system if I make an error.
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Lindsay Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Perth, Western Australia
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