Re: Best (most efficient method) recursive dir DEL

Locate only indexes path names, not other attributes (like type, size, time
etc)
On 23 May 2014 06:11, "Kyle" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks to all for the responses.
>
> Interestingly, everyone has come back with "find" (followed by......) as
> the best option. Perhaps this is simply a reflection of the fact my 3
> examples all used 'find'.
>
> I have always thought (believed) 'find' was a less efficient process than
> 'locate' and kind of hoped 'locate' (or some other cmd I don't know) might
> pop up as a solution. I understand 'locate' depends on an updated 'db', but
> I figured that indexing process was still more efficient than 'find'
> trawling the structure in realtime.
>
> Kyle
>
>
> On 22-05-2014 19:16, Darragh Bailey wrote:
>
>> Hi Kyle,
>>
>> You might find it worth looking at the following invocation of find:
>>
>> find <top_dir> -name <name_to_del> -exec rm -rf {} \+ -prune
>>
>> the '+' will support expansion of arguments, thus it works exactly like
>> xargs in building up a command line that is passed to rm. You may also need
>> to specify \"{}\" to handle whitespace in directory names, untested.
>>
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