On 2/28/2012 11:47 AM, Warp wrote:
>    A webpage suggests this:
>
> find<dir>  -exec rm {} \;
>
>    (I think that the idea is that this executes the 'rm' command individually
> on each file as it traverses the directory, rather than first gathering all
> the file names into RAM and then trying to do something to them.)

I saw that too, and tried some pretty similar things.  For whatever 
reason I wasn't able to get find to do anything successful, and all 
attempts met the same fate as other approaches.  Fortunately I 
remembered that I had access to a machine with enough ram to actually 
run find, and something like your suggestion did work.  I appreciate you 
taking the time to look for an answer though.

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