[thelist] Delete large number of files and directories Linux

kate kate.007 at btinternet.com
Wed Apr 9 10:11:44 CDT 2008


Hello Bojan,

Have you FTP access?
Very quick deletions.
Kate
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bojan Tesanovic" <btesanovic at gmail.com>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 3:19 PM
Subject: [thelist] Delete large number of files and directories Linux


> Hi ,
>
> I have trouble deleting large number of files and folders on Linux
>
> is there a way to delete whole directory structure faster as
> classical approach "rm -rf cache/*" is very slow.
>
> the thing is that I have cache folder with many dirs sub dirs and
> files  eg
>
>
> /cache/aa/aa/aaaaasdlkasd_xxx.cache , aaaaasdasd_xxx.cache  //upto
> 1000 files in this folder
> .....
> /cache/aa/bc/aabcasdlkasd_xxx.cache , aabcasdasd_xxx.cache  //upto
> 1000 files in this folder
> ....
> /cache/zz/zz/zzzasdlkasd_xxx.cache
>
> I would like to delete everything from cache folder  in some other
> faster way if possible?
>
>
>
>
> Bojan Tesanovic
> http://www.carster.us/
>
>
>
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