billions of files, ext3, reiser, and ls -aly

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 08:15:54PM -0500, John Macdonald wrote:
> Using:
> 
>     find . -print | xargs rm
> 
> would do it in one shot (as long as you really want to
> delete everything in the current directory and there are
> no sub-directories - there are other variants to deal with
> those cases).

As long as no files have spaces in their names.

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