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Hey, fd. I don't use it normally, but it ended up being the easiest and fastest tool for me to delete ~100 million empty files off my disk (a weird situation).

Hey, fd. I don't use it normally, but it ended up being the easiest and fastest tool for me to delete ~100 million empty files off my disk (a weird situation). It has threading and command execution built in, so I could saturate my cpu pretty easily doing the deletes with `fd -tf --threads=64 --exec r m {}` (I put the space in the rm command on purpose for posting).

donio 4y ago
find with its built-in -delete action would have avoided executing the external rm command millions of times.
- ungawatkt 4y ago
  well, somehow I missed that when looking for options. I just tried it out, the -delete option is way faster than what I posted before, TIL, thanks.