Fast way to recursively delete large amount of files.: Difference between revisions
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Latest revision as of 19:17, 25 April 2018
Create an empty directory i the same folder as the one that contains the large amount of files you want to delete.
mkdir empty_dir
Then execute this command:
rsync -a --delete empty_dir/ yourlargedirectory/
This command will grab everything in the directory "yourlargedirectory" and 'archive' it in "empty_dir" if a version of that already is there, else it will be deleted. This is remarkably faster that using the otherwise well known command
rm -rf yourlargedirectory/