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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting xargs Post 302656925 by jim mcnamara on Friday 15th of June 2012 03:44:58 PM
Old 06-15-2012
Do you mean 4 million (4M) files? The performance on a directory with that many files will be terrible, to say the least. I'm surpised you did not run out of inodes....

There is nothing wrong with your command. It probably takes 60 seconds to locate one file name in the directory and delete it.

Try this, and check back on Monday.... assume your directory name is ad.
Code:
cd /path/to/ad
cd ..
rm -r ./ad
mkdir ./ad

You need to get rid of the directory as well. Then recreate it.
 

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delete directory(1m)													      delete directory(1m)

NAME
delete directory - Deletes a directory SYNOPSIS
cdscp delete directory directory-name ARGUMENTS
The full name of the directory. DESCRIPTION
The delete directory command deletes a directory. The directory cannot contain any object entries, soft links, or child pointers. The master replica must be the only remaining replica in the cell. Use the delete replica command if you need to remove read-only replicas. Privilege Required You must have delete permission to the directory and write permission to the clearinghouse that stores the master replica of the directory. The server principal needs administer permission to the parent directory or delete permission to the child pointer that points to the directory you intend to delete. NOTE
This command is replaced at Revision 1.1 by the dcecp command and may not be provided in future releases of DCE. EXAMPLE
The following command deletes the directory /.:/eng from the namespace: cdscp> delete directory /.:/eng RELATED INFORMATION
Commands: create directory(1m), delete replica(1m), list directory(1m), set directory(1m), set directory to skulk(1m), show directory(1m) delete directory(1m)
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