rm -rf and flags (schg, sunlnk)

[Steve O'Hara-Smith]

On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 14:38:50 -0600
Bryan Drewery <bryan at shatow.net> wrote:


> Two options:
> 
>     find /PATH -flags schg -exec chflags noschg {} +
> or
>     chflags -R noschg /PATH
> 
> Then
> 
>     rm -rf /PATH

	it's often quickest to:

rm -rf /PATH
chflags -R noschg /PATH
rm -rf /PATH

	The other way requires two traversals of the full tree, this way
there's only one full traversal and a clean up which is small and fast.

-- 
Steve O'Hara-Smith <ateve at sohara.org>