Re: why is perl -e 'unlink(glob("*"))' so much faster than rm ?
- From: ewaguespack@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: 17 Jul 2006 13:29:48 -0700
The find was spawning a new instance of 'rm' for each file - very inefficient.
The equivalent to your Perl code would be to use find to get a list of files,
and then use 'xargs' to pass that whole list to one instance of 'rm':
find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 rm -f
sherm--
thanks for the info everyone.
-op
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