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Date:      Thu, 20 Jan 2005 13:36:30 -0800
From:      Darryl Okahata <darrylo@soco.agilent.com>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Very large directory 
Message-ID:  <200501202136.NAA13625@mina.soco.agilent.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 20 Jan 2005 12:30:20 %2B0100." <200501201130.j0KBUKMZ066099@lurza.secnetix.de> 

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Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> wrote:

> I would suggest trying this simple hack:
> 
> cd /var/spool/directory ; cat . | strings | xargs rm -f

     Since the original poster was willing to use -rf, wouldn't it be
better to do:

cd /var/spool/directory ; find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 rm -f

Slightly more typing, but more robust.

-- 
	Darryl Okahata
	darrylo@soco.agilent.com

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