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From: Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au>
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On Thu, 2005-Jan-20 13:36:30 -0800, Darryl Okahata wrote:
>     Since the original poster was willing to use -rf, wouldn't it be
>better to do:
>
>cd /var/spool/directory ; find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 rm -f

The original poster mentioned that "find" wouldn't work: find(1) uses
fts(3) which reads the entire directory into memory.

-- 
Peter Jeremy