One could rsync -avP --delete-during /var/empty /dir/to/clean/ also if you
like to see a list of files flash by.
Or something with find ... -exec rm {} + and later something to clean out
links, sockets and/or dirs.2016-04-03 9:39 GMT+02:00 Raul Miller <rauldmil...@gmail.com>: > On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 2:57 AM, Max Power <open...@cpnetserver.net> wrote: > > Hi guys! > > Is there a way to view the deleted file or a progress bar > > while you're erasing them? > > > > Thanks for Your reply. > > Do you mean like this? > > yes | rm -i ./* 2>&1 | sed 's/remove //g; s/\?//g' |fmt > > If that kind of behavior is what you want, you could make that command > line into a shell script, replacing the ./* with "$@". This would > allow you to use it with xargs, for example (though, for xargs, you > might also want to remove the |fmt and pipe the result of xargs to > fmt...). > > If you want something different, I guess you would have to be a bit > clearer on what you are asking for. > > Thanks, > > -- > Raul > > -- May the most significant bit of your life be positive.
