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Deleting an directory can be faster with rsync instead of rm or find -delete.
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| #!/bin/sh | |
| readonly empty_dir=$(mktemp -d) | |
| readonly target_dir="$1" | |
| rm -rf $empty_dir | |
| mkdir $empty_dir | |
| rsync --recursive --delete $empty_dir/ "$target_dir"/ | |
| # --delete: delete extraneous files from dest dirs (differential clean-up during sync) | |
| rmdir $empty_dir "$target_dir" |
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