rmdir when directory is not empty

[Chasecreek Systemhouse]

On 12/20/05, Mogens Kjaer <mk at crc.dk> wrote:

> > That won't work on directories that have tens of thousands of files.
>
> Why not?
>
> As long as you don't do a:
>
> rm -f /dir/folder-with-many-files/*
>
> that, of course won't work, but
>
> rm -rf /dir/folder-with-many-files
>
> should work.


Have you tried it?  rm will fail because the shell cannot keep track
of that many;
the find cmd works because it deals with one file at a time.

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