Re: [Nolug] Getting rid of old files

On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 11:43, Mark A. Hershberger wrote:
> "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.

Doesn't this suffer the limitation that the command buffer would
get filled, if you were going to delete *lots* of files?

Of course, if you are *not* going to delete 20,000 at once....

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