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

> 
> find on CentOS 5.4 supports
> 
> find <path> -exec {} +;
> 
> which avoids the negative effect of spawning new subprocesses when using
> "-exec {} \;"
> 
> find on CentOS 4.8 does not support that.

I'll have to give that a try sometime.  A person gets used to a subset of a command, and doesn't necessarily look for new options being added.