[CentOS] The directory that I am trying to clean up is huge

On Sat, 23 Jan 2010, Marcelo M. Garcia wrote:

> Robert Heller wrote:
> >>
> >> -bash: /usr/bin/find: Argument list too long
> >
> > 'man xargs'
> >
> > find <mumble> -print | xargs rm
> >
> Hi
>
> Just curious. What is the difference between the command above and "find
> <numble> -exec rm -f {} \;" ?

  the find ... -exec variation will invoke a new "rm" command for
every single file it finds, which will simply take more time to run.
beyond that, the effect should be the same.

rday
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