A faster way to delete files

ckaraca — Mon, 12 May 2014 23:41:48 +0000

If you are struggling with millions of SPAM messages like me, you should rather use “find” instead of “rm” while deleting files in a folder. This method is tested to be faster than rm -rf:

switch to the folder containing files, in my case:

cd /var/spool/exim/

ans start deleting files by typing:

find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -delete

you can track the number of remaining files easily by tiping the below command from another terminal: (cd to same directory)

find . -maxdepth 1 -type f | wc -l

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