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[Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 26 March 2008 12:07, Nick Zeljkovic wrote:
> > How can I delete these files w/o removing the folder itself?
>
> find .thumbnails -type f -exec rm -rf {} \;

This could be very slow, since there must be a fork / exec for each 
file. Usually much faster is this:

% find dirName(s) {findCriteria} -print0 |xargs -0 rm

By doing this, xargs essentially "batches up" maximal (w.r.t. the 
argument size limit) sets of file names and invokes rm only as many 
times as necessary.

Note the use of find's -print0 option and the corresponding -0 option to 
xargs. This causes each file name to be delineated by a NUL character 
which means that files with spaces or other funky characters in their 
names won't mess things up.


> And no, it's not a bug.

Not at all, just a limit.


> --
> Nick Zeljkovic


Randall Schulz
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