[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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