[WBEL-users] File deletion

[Luke Scharf]

On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 19:02, Kirby C. Bohling wrote:
> In fact, xargs is an easy way to take advangte of SMP machines.  I
> do this every night in a script (gzip is super reliable in that, you
> either have the uncompressed version, the compressed version or
> both, you never have a partial compressed and no original in my
> experience):
> 
> ls *.dbf | xargs -n 1 -P 4 gzip -9

Sweet!  That's going in my bag of tricks!

Thanks,
-Luke

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