Very large directory

[Darryl Okahata]

Oliver Fromme <olli at lurza.secnetix.de> wrote:

> I would suggest trying this simple hack:
> 
> cd /var/spool/directory ; cat . | strings | xargs rm -f

     Since the original poster was willing to use -rf, wouldn't it be
better to do:

cd /var/spool/directory ; find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 rm -f

Slightly more typing, but more robust.

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