Unable to delete LARGE folder

Wed Dec 7 16:37:45 UTC 2011

On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 11:37:02AM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> posix find does NOT have a -delete option, so it is clearly NOT portable.
> 
> find foldername -exec rm {} \;
> 
> That is portable.  But calls rm a lot more times, hence the xargs.

The -print0 is unfortunately NOT portable.  Usually isn't needed either
though.

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Len Sorensen
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