Operating Systems :: Unix :: deleting files |
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By: roe1and  |
Date: 23/04/2008 12:17:00  |
Points: 20 | Status: Answered Quality : Excellent |
| i want to delete all the .old files in a directory and its subdirectories. the subdirectories are about 4 deep. i've tried rm -rf *.old but i think this only goes one deep? i could use a php or perl script but it seems to me that the unlink() function is extremely slow. any ideas? | |||
| By: VGR | Date: 23/04/2008 21:08:30 | |
Type : Answer |
| I think rm ha a "recursive search" switch, but I may be wrong. personally, I would do something like this : rm -f < find / -name *.old [s] where [s] is the proper find switch for recursive search. make sure find returns full pathes. Then pass the files list to rm -f as for unlink(), it's not as slow as you think. It should be mapped to the fastest OS dependent function. In your case, the destruction of the inode, or a "rm" using PHP, you're right, a recursive function with readdir() would do, or a de-recursified version with a maximum depth, say 5 in your case. All not that difficult. Come back again in case of errors or details needed. |
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