On 2018 Jun 07 06:27:52, you wrote to andrew clarke:

 ac>> find . -iname '*.msg' -delete

 GK> Might take for ages, too. find is slow with that. I've had directories
with
 GK> many files, and even doing "ls -l" is getting slow pretty
soon. Try it
with
 GK> 50k of files, and you'll see what I mean.

i don't kon whow long your "ages" is but around these parts, it
is only a few
minutes... i regularly use find to search a directory tree containing over 1
million files...

dolphin just took 3:45 minutes to tell me the tree in question contains

  89.5GiB (96142214237 bytes)
  1828253 files, 46454 sub-directories

said tree is the generated scenery for the entire world used in a flight
simulator... it would be larger, much larger, if all of the OpenStreet Maps
data were included for all areas... as it is, only a few areas have had OSM
data built for them and added to the distributed scenery...

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