On 12/20/05, Mogens Kjaer <mk@xxxxxx> wrote: > > That won't work on directories that have tens of thousands of files. > > Why not? > > As long as you don't do a: > > rm -f /dir/folder-with-many-files/* > > that, of course won't work, but > > rm -rf /dir/folder-with-many-files > > should work. Have you tried it? rm will fail because the shell cannot keep track of that many; the find cmd works because it deals with one file at a time. -- WC -Sx- Jones | http://ccsh.us/ | Open Source Consulting
