What the hell are these dirs?

Tony Nelson tonynelson at georgeanelson.com
Sun Jul 26 13:30:40 UTC 2009


On 09-07-26 00:26:10, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:

> BTW, I'm running this command, as suggested by an earlier poster:
> 
> find . -type f -exec rm -fv '{}' +
> 
> It's been running just about all day.  There appears to be no end in
> sight.  There has got to be a faster way to do this.

Take out that "v" and it will go much much faster.

> Can't I create a sparse file or swap file or something, over that 
> location and wipe it clean that way?

No.

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