Delete a large number of small files under Linux

1, Linux under How to delete a large number of small files or small files beginning with a number?

Answer:

Simulate the environment and create 1 million small files in the/tmp directory

Cd/tmp && Touch {1..1000000}

Method 1:

[Email protected] tmp]# ls|egrep "^[0-9]*" |xargs ls-l

Method 2:

[Email protected] tmp]# find/tmp-type f-name "[0-9]*" |xargs rm-f

Method 3:

[Email protected] tmp]# Rm-f [0-9]*

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Delete a large number of small files under Linux