[nycbug-talk] Deleting Lots of Files.

Hans Kaspersetz lamolist at cyberxdesigns.com
Wed Jun 21 10:44:01 EDT 2006


I was wondering what the best way to delete lots of files is.  Here is 
my problem, I have a mail box directory with 55K files in it.  The file 
names are in the form:  1144126802.V411I59451aM517953.foo.com:2,  They 
are semi squential.

I would like to delete all the files in the 114* series.  However, when 
I pass rm -f ./114*, I get to many arguments as an error.  What I really 
want to delete is all files from before June.

Ideas?
Hans K



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