Hello andrew!

07 Jun 18 11:20, andrew clarke wrote to Gerrit Kuehn:


 GK>> Might simply start with not easily being able to delete them anymore
 GK>> on the commandline under *ix systems.

 ac> If you're referring to filename globbing done by the shell, then yes, 
 ac> this can be a problem if you reach the kernel's limit for the length 
 ac> of the command or number of arguments.

That's what I was referring to. Of course there are ways around that, so I
wrote "not easily", i.e., not the usual way.

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

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


Regards,
Gerrit

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