Re: why is perl -e 'unlink(glob("*"))' so much faster than rm ?

ewaguespack@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
i had a situation that required that i remove several thousand zero
byte files, and i tried this first:

# find . -type f -exec rm -f {} \;

this was taking ages, so on a hunch I decided to try this to see it I
got any better results:

# perl -e 'unlink(glob("*"))'

I smell a rat. What an odd command to post! For one thing, it does
not do the same as the find above and, secondly, a single rm would
surely be faster still?

With luck, no one will have tried either command out!

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Ben.
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