rm -rf stalls server

[Lowell Gilbert]

Mehmet Erol Sanliturk <m.e.sanliturk at gmail.com> writes:

> I am using  a script to delete .BAK files from many directories with  lines
> like
>
> rm path/*.BAK
> find path -name '*.BAK'  -exec rm -f '{}' +
>
>
> for each different path names which contains such files .

Surely you would see a significant performance improvement just by using
"-delete" instead of "-exec rm"