On 2/28/2012 12:04, Kevin Wampler wrote:
> I saw that too, and tried some pretty similar things.

For the future, just try "find <dir>" and see what you get. That should 
print all the file names to the screen without having to actually load them 
into memory. (The shell and ls both try to sort the list of files before 
printing/using them, so that's part of your problem.)

Also, be aware that once the directory is empty, it may take several minutes 
to rmdir it, because (depending on the underlying file system) it has to 
read the entire directory before it will ack that the directory is 
sufficiently empty to delete.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   People tell me I am the counter-example.

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