[LUAU] How do you delete over 500,000 files in a directory
Eric Hattemer
hattenator at imapmail.org
Thu Nov 3 20:37:37 PST 2005
Jim Thompson wrote:
> Hawaii Linux Institute wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> for i in m*; do rm m*; done
>
>
> still requires bash to glob all 500,000 files. Fails for the same
> reaons.
Ok, I wonder if I'm the only one who immediately read this as what I
thought it should have been, then didn't get the criticism. The typo
should have read
for i in m*; do rm $i; done;
-Eric Hattemer
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