[Dovecot] 1.0.rc10 released

Geert Hendrickx ghen at telenet.be
Tue Oct 17 09:44:07 UTC 2006


On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 12:27:39PM +1000, Ian Mortimer wrote:
> 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.

No, it fires an rm process for each 5000 files (by default, change with
find -n).  I don't know which is more efficient though.  Anyway, thinking
about it will take more time than running either command. :-)

	Geert


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