[UNCLASSIFIED]RE: [clug] What's the fastest way of deleting f iles ?

[Peter Barker]

On Fri, 13 May 2005 Antti.Roppola at brs.gov.au wrote:

> >I'd be surprised if it were much faster than 'rm -rf' anyhow.
>
> Actually, chmod, chown and chgrp are the more usual recursive tasks
> and I like to use find since I can pipe things through grep as well.

the -regex option to find is quite useful :) Still, each to their own, and
pipelines are an integral part of the unixy-way.

Additionally, I've not found (nor have I looked too hard) why
find . -name \*.#\*
 doesn't work as I think it should. I use
find . -regex '.*\.#.*' instead...

> Antti

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