[plug] deleting stuff in batches

[Russell Steicke]

On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 09:34:33PM +0800, Stuart Midgley wrote:
> find . -name "*.wma" -exec rm {} \;

That will work, but slowly if there are many files, as it will exec()
/bin/rm once for each file.  A quicker way:

  find . -name '*.wma' -print0 | xargs -0 rm




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Russell Steicke

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