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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Delete files listed in text file Post 302934416 by RudiC on Friday 6th of February 2015 06:04:32 PM
Old 02-06-2015
I'm afraid deleting 100000 files from a directory will take its time, esp. on a production system where other things are going on as well.
cding to the $workdir would not improve performance significantly; you might want to give
Code:
while read A; read B; read C; do echo rm -f $A $B $C; done < file

a try, as it saves two thirds of process creations. Or even
Code:
< file xargs -n8 echo rm -f

, eliminating 7 process creations.
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i-ls(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   i-ls(1)

NAME
i-ls - display file stat and checksum information for files SYNOPSIS
i-ls [-s] filename i-ls [-s] dirname Specify a filename for i-ls to examine, or specify a directory with dirname to examine all the files in the directory. -s Do not show/calculate checksums for all regular files. DESCRIPTION
The integrit system detects intrusion by detecting when trusted files have been altered. integrit records information about files in a database. i-ls allows the user to see that information for live files. The output syntax is the same as that of integrit. EXAMPLES
i-ls /tmp/foo.txt shows file stat attributes for the file, "/tmp/foo.txt". i-ls /tmp shows file stat attributes for all files in the directory, "/tmp". i-ls -s /tmp shows file stat attributes for all files in the directory, "/tmp", also including also checksums for all regular files. AUTHOR
Ed L Cashin <ecashin@users.sourceforge.net> See the integrit web site for up to date releases and information at http://integrit.sourceforge.net/ SEE ALSO
Integrit File Verification System Manual (info), lstat(2) Version 4.1 Jul 27, 2001 i-ls(1)
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