Bath.pm April 2 Meeting Report

Dave Hodgkinson daveh at davehodgkinson.com
Sat Apr 6 13:47:15 CST 2002


"Newton, Philip" <Philip.Newton at datenrevision.de> writes:

> [1] Apparently it can be pretty important in which order you delete files
> from a really huge directory -- there can be worst-case and best-case orders
> depending on the file system used.

rm -rf <directory> managed in under 24 hours ;-)


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