On Wed, 12 Jun 2013 15:26:46 +0100 Pete Smith <pete at realisestudio.com> wrote: > Hi > > We've got a directory with approx 1 million files. Mac user ... grr > > Is there a quick and dirty way to remove them? > > I was going with: > > ls | xargs rm > > but maybe rsync -a --delete empty/ full/ > > would be less expensive? > > This is on a distributed replicated volume. > > Any pointers appreciated! Admin question ;-) mv <dir> <tempdirname> mkdir <dir> rm -rf <tempdirname> -- Regards, Stephan
