As far as I understand, that perl line is by far the fastest way to delete
files in linux. We're talking over 500k files on hdd.
On Monday, December 4, 2017 at 12:50:54 PM UTC-5, Gabriel Forster wrote:
>
> What takes 18 seconds in a perl command:
> perl -e 'for(<*>){((stat)[9]<(unlink))}'
>
> is taking almost 8 minutes with the following code. Any ideas how I can
> speed this up?
>
> dir, err := os.Open("/var/spool/directory")
> if err != nil {
> fmt.Fprintf(w, "failed - " + err.Error())
> return
> }
> defer dir.Close()
>
>
> files, err := dir.Readdir(-1)
> if err != nil {
> fmt.Fprintf(w, "failed - " + err.Error())
> return
> }
>
> for _, file := range files {
> if file.Name() == "." || file.Name() == ".." {
> continue
> }
>
> os.Remove("/var/spool/directory/" + file.Name())
> }
>
>
> fmt.Fprintf(w, "success")
>
>
>
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