Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 17:05:08 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Mehmet Erol Sanliturk <m.e.sanliturk@gmail.com> Cc: Artem Kuchin <artem@artem.ru>, FreeBSD Questions Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: rm -rf stalls server Message-ID: <44iodneagr.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> In-Reply-To: <CAOgwaMsodE2ZSubknmGQoXz7z13Fas3vvLzKTgO1_BVY3x6qsQ@mail.gmail.com> (Mehmet Erol Sanliturk's message of "Thu, 26 Mar 2015 13:25:56 -0700") References: <55144606.7000003@artem.ru> <CAOgwaMsodE2ZSubknmGQoXz7z13Fas3vvLzKTgO1_BVY3x6qsQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Mehmet Erol Sanliturk <m.e.sanliturk@gmail.com> writes:
> I am using a script to delete .BAK files from many directories with lines
> like
>
> rm path/*.BAK
> find path -name '*.BAK' -exec rm -f '{}' +
>
>
> for each different path names which contains such files .
Surely you would see a significant performance improvement just by using
"-delete" instead of "-exec rm"
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