Sunday, May 28, 2006
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Dan Becker
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Obligatory(?) disclaimer
My employer has clarified that I only need to say this “The postings on this site are my own and do not necessarily represent my employer’s positions, strategies, or opinions” if I say who my employer is. So - I'm not saying who I work for, ok? But the disclaimer is true anyway.
We just had a big thread at work trying to figure out how to delete a ~150 mb directory from the command line in less than a few HOURS.
ReplyDeleteThe most clueful solution was offered by Scott Evans:
Try running "cmd" and then using DOS commands.
mv = rename
rm -rf = del /f
Also, if you know a way to rename a directory from the command line that doesn't take exponential time for the size of the directory...
Does any of this work better in Vista than Win2K? (We're actually using Win2K for one of our build machines.)