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Originally Posted by learnbash

how can i run below program in one line. I need to test that.

Neither this, nor any other program you can hack together, will delete any faster. The problem is in the filesystem itself.

There's no point continuing when you won't acknowledge the problem for what it is. Thread closed.

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