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From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
To: Mehmet Erol Sanliturk <m.e.sanliturk@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: rm -rf stalls server
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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"