http://www.clarksys.com Rants and Raves! Thu, 10 Nov 2011 17:12:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.clarksys.com/blog/2008/12/07/read-the-man-page/ http://www.clarksys.com/blog/2008/12/07/read-the-man-page/#comments Sun, 07 Dec 2008 11:58:04 +0000 Max http://www.clarksys.com/?p=398 Continue reading →]]> For years I have been using the syntax:

$ find . -type f -exec rm {} \;

For some reason I took the time to read the man page for find today and guess what:

$ find . -type f -delete

Does the exact same thing and it is almost instant. Lesson learned, every now and again read the man page.

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