Summary: probably over a million files to delete

Thanks all.
 
Some of the replies :
 
A couple replies say I will still some time to complete the
 deletion, so I probably can do
 "nohup <delete command>  &
to let it run by itself in the background.
 
As I need to remove files older than 180 days, I chose :
 
cd <dir where files exist>
find . -xdev -type f -mtime +180 -exec rm {} \+ &

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Other replies :
 
Mount the filesystem with logging on. You can do this without 
unmounting 
the filesystem
mount -o remout,logging <dev> >filesystem>
 
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cd <directory>
find . -name '*2004*12' -o -name '*2004*11*' -o .... | xargs rm -f &
 
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1. find . -exec rm {} \;
2. for x in `ls`; do rm $x ; done

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You ran into a limitation on the ability of the shell.  I have run into
similar problems in the past.  Here is how I worked around it.  It
requires the use of perl.  It will remove all files within the 
directory
where executed.  Test to verify for yourself how it works.
  ls | perl -ne 'chomp; unlink'

 

		
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