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Parallelize recursive deletion with find

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I want to recursively delete all files that end with .in. This is taking a long time, and I have many cores available, so I would like to parallelize this process. From this thread , it looks like it's possible to use xargs or make to parallelize find. Is this application of find possible to parallelize? Here is my current serial command: find . -name "*.in" -type f -delete
Asked by kilojoules (169 rep)
Mar 6, 2017, 04:57 PM
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