help removing directory with tons of files

[medicalhumor]

I have a couple domains I put a search script on that cached all the damn search queries as .html files. I have a cache directory that has been filling up with thousands and thousands of files. Trying to access the directory just hangs everything.

Is there a way to 'quickly' delete the entire directory? I've done rm -rf /path/to/directory so far but it looks like it's going to be a long while. Is there a better way?

 

[nathanjacobs]

Give me an example of the filenames and i'll hook ya up.

5-10 of them should do

Nathan

 

[medicalhumor]

after I change directories to get into it, and -ls, it just hangs.

they're all .html files though. like "search_term.html"

f_03_9.html
it_03_9.html
does_16.html
about_s.html
9_2006.html

 

[SandnSurf]

Try cd'ing into the directory and run from putty or such

find . -name '*.html' -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf

Probably better ways to do it, but works for me on a cache dir with 100's of 1000's files.