有效删除包含数千个文件的大目录

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mkdir empty_dir
rsync -a --delete empty_dir/    yourdirectory/

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rsync -a --delete empty/ your_folder/

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$ mkdir foo
$ cd foo/
$ for X in $(seq 1 1000);do touch {1..1000}_$X; done

$ rm -r foo/*
bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long

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time rm -rf *                   2m17.32s
time rm -rf directory           0m15.60s
time find directory -delete     0m16.97s

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find . -ls -exec rm {} \;

find . -delete

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find <dir> -type f -exec ionice -c3 rm {} \;

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#!/bin/bash

MAX_LOAD=3
FILES=("$@")
BATCH=100

while [ ${#FILES[@]} -gt 0 ]; do
    DEL=("${FILES[@]:0:$BATCH}")
    ionice -c3 rm "${DEL[@]}"
    echo -n "#"
    FILES=("${FILES[@]:$BATCH}")
    while [[ $(cat /proc/loadavg | awk '{print int()}') -gt $MAX_LOAD ]]; do
        echo -n "."
        sleep 1
    done
done

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ls -1 | xargs rm -rf 

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#!/bin/bash

# Path to folder with many files
FOLDER="/path/to/folder/with/many/files"

# Temporary file to store file names
FILE_FILENAMES="/tmp/filenames"

if [ -z "$FOLDER" ]; then
    echo "Prevented you from deleting everything! Correct your FOLDER variable!"
    exit 1
fi

while true; do
    FILES=$(ls -f1 $FOLDER | wc -l)
    if [ "$FILES" -gt 10000 ]; then
        printf "[%s] %s files found. going on with removing\n" "$(date)" "$FILES"
        # Create new list of files
        ls -f1 $FOLDER | head -n 5002 | tail -n 5000 > "$FILE_FILENAMES"

        if [ -s $FILE_FILENAMES ]; then
            while read FILE; do
                rm "$FOLDER/$FILE"
                sleep 0.005
            done < "$FILE_FILENAMES"
        fi
    else
        printf "[%s] script has finished, almost all files have been deleted" "$(date)"
        break
    fi
    sleep 5
done

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