Delete Huge Directory Tree

[someone_4]

Hello all,

I have to clean up some old application directory trees.

Some of theese dirs have up to 100,000 - 0 byte files.

I am using:
find . -xdev -type f -name "data.*"| xargs rm

And this deletes about 8 files a second.

Just wondering if there would be a faster way of doing this.


Thanks,
Richard

[IT_2007]

If they are directories use "-type d " to cleanup faster.

[Sandman! · Accepted solution]

You can narrow your find/search to the specific directory tree(s) by supplying the "-path" option:

# find . -xdev -path "./myapp/*" -type f -name "data.*" | xargs rm

[Ivan Ferreira]

I think that you are using the right command, if this deletion process will be common or regular, you may consider the use of a special file system for the files and destroy/recreate the file system when you need to do a cleanup.

[someone_4]

that worked thanks