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What about
is this a fastest method to remove a million files more than 200gb ?
You're comparing apples and oranges:
attempts to remove directory and any links to files (of any type) in the file hierarchy rooted in directory.
On the other hand:
attempts to remove only links to regular files in the file hierarchy rooted in directory (leaving the directory structure and all other file types as is). Furthermore, the -delete primary in find is an extension to the standards that is available on some systems, but is not available on other systems.
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Hi
I need to delete more than 3 million files from /var/spool/clientmqueue. When I give the following command to delete the files, I get the error
# pwd
/var/spool/clientmqueue
# rm -f *
/usr/bin/rm: arg list too long
Please tell me how can I delete the files (5 Replies)
Hi Friends,
I am new to this , I am working on AIX system and my scenario is to retrive the files from remote system and remove the files from the remote system after retreving files. I can able to retrieve the files but Can't remove files in remote system. Please check my code and help me out... (3 Replies)
Hi all, I have developed a shell script to copy the files from source to destination and simultaneously to delete the copied files in source. I can copy the files but the files cannot be deleted in source side. (3 Replies)
Dear All,
I have two files both containing 10 Million records each separated by comma(csv fmt).
One file is input.txt other is status.txt.
Input.txt-> contains fields with one unique id field (primary key we can say)
Status.txt -> contains two fields only:1. unique id and 2. status
... (8 Replies)
Hi, I'd like to ask if anybody can help improve my code to move 1 million+ files from a directory to another:
find /source/dir -name file* -type f | xargs -I '{}' mv {} /destination/dir
I learned this line of code from this forum as well and it works fine. However, file movement is kinda... (6 Replies)
Hi,
one of the server, log directory was never cleaned up. We have so many files. I want to remove all the files that starts with dfr* but I get error message when I use the *.
rm qfr*
bash: /usr/bin/rm: Arg list too long
I am trying to write this script but not working.
... (4 Replies)
#!/bin/bash
#
name=$1
type=$2
number=1
for file in ./**
do
if
then
filenumber=00$number
elif
then
filenumber=0$number
fi
tempname="$name""$filenumber"."$type"
if (4 Replies)
Hi
I have task to zip files based on modified time but they are in millions and it is taking lot of time more than 12 hours and also eating up high cpu
is there any other / better way to handle it quickly with less cpu consumptionfind . ! -name \"*.gz\" -mtime +7 -type f | grep -v '/.*/' |... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: reldb
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vidir
VIDIR(1)VIDIR(1)NAME
vidir - edit directory
SYNOPSIS
vidir [--verbose] [directory|file|-] ...
DESCRIPTION
vidir allows editing of the contents of a directory in a text editor. If no directory is specified, the current directory is edited.
When editing a directory, each item in the directory will appear on its own numbered line. These numbers are how vidir keeps track of what
items are changed. Delete lines to remove files from the directory, or edit filenames to rename files. You can also switch pairs of numbers
to swap filenames.
Note that if "-" is specified as the directory to edit, it reads a list of filenames from stdin and displays those for editing.
Alternatively, a list of files can be specified on the command line.
OPTIONS -v, --verbose
Verbosely display the actions taken by the program.
EXAMPLES
vidir
vidir *.jpeg
Typical uses.
find | vidir -
Edit subdirectory contents too. To delete subdirectories, delete all their contents and the subdirectory itself in the editor.
find -type f | vidir -
Edit all files under the current directory and subdirectories.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
EDITOR
Editor to use.
VISUAL
Also supported to determine what editor to use.
AUTHOR
Copyright 2006 by Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
Licensed under the GNU GPL.
moreutils 2010-04-28 VIDIR(1)