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Old 07-16-2014
Rm -rf * sequence
If I run rm -rf * command under one parent directory.

Code:
/data > rm -rf *

Is there anyway to know which files will be deleted first ?

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Last edited by zaxxon; 07-16-2014 at 12:22 PM.. Reason: code tags
# 2  
Old 07-16-2014
you can do
Code:
ls -ltr *

from that dir before deleting to get the listings of files and dirs which are going to be delete...
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Old 07-16-2014
On wonders why you care. I would presume that it will be alphabetical and similar down the subdirectories. You can test this with ls -R

As an alternate, is /data a filesystem? If so and it is large with lots of files, you can probably speed up your operation by un-mounting it, reformatting it with a mkfs command and then re-mounting it.



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