Very large directory

[Oliver Fromme]

David Landgren <david at landgren.net> wrote:
 > Oliver Fromme wrote:
 > > I would suggest trying this simple hack:
 > > 
 > > cd /var/spool/directory ; cat . | strings | xargs rm -f
 > > 
 > > It's a dirty hack, but might work, if the file names in
 > > that directory aren't too strange (no spaces etc.).
 > 
 > why suggest a dirty hack that might not work, when the proposed Perl 
 > script would have worked perfectly?

In this case, the hack _should_ work, and is about 1/10 of
the size of the perl script and leaves a lot less room for
typing errors.  Aport from that, perl might not even be
installed on the machine in question, who knows.

But of course:  YMMV.  It was just a suggestion.

Best regards
   Oliver

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