Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote: > This is what has me most baffled. Why did gnome-mplayer created > hundreds of thousands of jpegs in those dirs? forgot you mentioned jpegs. no telling why. i do not use gnome-player, does gnome-player do video? if audio only, is there any graphic display happening while player is running? have you tried to open a file to see just what is in it? > It's been running just about all day. There appears to be no end in > sight. some time ago, i was doing some database work that created hundreds files and 'rm -fR *' would not kill them because there were too many. to get passed problem, i created a script to break file deleting into groups on order of; rm -fR [0-9]*;rm -fR [a-l]*;rm -fR [m-z]*;rm -fR [A-L]*;rm -fR [M-Z]* i had to break it down into smaller groups like [0-4], [5-9], [a-f], [g-l], [m-r], [t-z], [A-F], [G-L], [M-R], [T-Z]. not exact, but i believe you can see how i did it. after i worked up correct grouping, it ran rather fast. hth. -- peace out. tc,hago. g . **** in a free world without fences, who needs gates. ** help microsoft stamp out piracy - give linux to a friend today. ** to mess up a linux box, you need to work at it. to mess up an ms windows box, you just need to *look* at it. ** learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ 'LDP HOWTO-index' http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/index.html 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ ****
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