[Dovecot] 1.0.rc10 released

Ian Mortimer ian at physics.uq.edu.au
Tue Oct 17 03:27:39 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 15:48 +0200, Petar Bogdanovic wrote:

> > find /path -name dovecot.index.\* | xargs rm
> 
> find /path -name 'dovecot.index.*' -exec rm {} \;

The version with xargs is much more efficient on a large file store.
The second version forks a separate rm process for each file.  
xargs forks the minimum number of rm processes required by the shell.


-- 
Ian



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