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From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells)
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Subject: Re: deleted huge directory
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Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 10:53:01 -0400
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In article <Pine.BSF.3.95.971022213636.10104A-100000@luke.cpl.net>,
Shawn Ramsey  <shawn@luke.cpl.net> wrote:
: Does anyone have any suggestions for deleting a huge directory? The
: direcory is /var/news/spool/control/cancel.

cd /var/news/spool/control/cancel
find . -type f | xargs rm

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