Very large directory

[Wolfgang Zenker]

Hello Phillip,

> I've received a couple perl scripts from a few different people.  I can't
> use any of them until this evening due to the current load of the machines
> though.  Last night I ended up doing a strings on the directory, and taking
> its output into a for loop removing the files.

if you have a bit of time to spare, take a look at the xargs(1) manpage.
Using xargs instead of a for loop would have saved you a lot of time and
system load (and a little bit of typing :-)

Wolfgang