Comments on: Deleting All Messages in Exchange OWA http://beyondabstraction.net/2008/10/02/deleting-all-messages-in-exchange-owa/ Meanderings and Such... Sat, 05 Sep 2009 15:18:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: spencer http://beyondabstraction.net/2008/10/02/deleting-all-messages-in-exchange-owa/comment-page-1/#comment-22430 spencer Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:28:34 +0000 http://beyondabstraction.net/?p=119#comment-22430 <blockquote> find . -maxdepth 1 -name \*.EML -print0 | xargs -0 -L 100 rm </blockquote> Good call Ross.

find . -maxdepth 1 -name \*.EML -print0 | xargs -0 -L 100 rm

Good call Ross.

]]> By: Ross http://beyondabstraction.net/2008/10/02/deleting-all-messages-in-exchange-owa/comment-page-1/#comment-22427 Ross Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:28:14 +0000 http://beyondabstraction.net/?p=119#comment-22427 Just shooting in the dark here, but wouldn't something like this be faster than your for-loop rm: find . -maxdepth 1 -name \*.EML -print0 | xargs -0 -L 100 rm Which will do the deletions in batches of 100 instead of spawning a separate process for each deletion. (You can, of course, embiggen or shrink the -L parameter to find the maximal line length) Just shooting in the dark here, but wouldn’t something like this be faster than your for-loop rm:

find . -maxdepth 1 -name \*.EML -print0 | xargs -0 -L 100 rm

Which will do the deletions in batches of 100 instead of spawning a separate process for each deletion. (You can, of course, embiggen or shrink the -L parameter to find the maximal line length)

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