Re: [Nolug] Getting rid of old files

"Dustin Puryear" <dpuryear@usa.net> writes:

> 'man find'. It was probably something along the lines of:
>
> $ find . -mtime +7 -exec rm {} \;

Faster:

    $ find . -mtime +7 -print0 | xargs -0 rm

Piping find to xargs means that you can load up a single rm with
multiple files instead of forking off an rm for every file.

Mark.

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