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Removing all files in a deep, thick tree of files and directories
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removing all files and subdirectories in a deep thick tree
$ find . | cpio -pmdu /tmp/foo
1738239 blocks
$ cd /tmp/foo
$ du -hsc .
916M .
916M total
$ find .[a-z]* * | wc -l
27791
$ time find .[a-z]* * -delete
real 0m3.496s
user 0m0.035s
sys 0m0.603s
$ du -hsc .
0B .
0B total
$ find .[a-z]* * | wc -l
find: .[a-z]*: No such file or directory
find: *: No such file or directory
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