If the purge were done inside the POSIX shell, eg,

     find /ACCOUNT/GROUP -name "FILES*" | xargs rm -f

would that mitigate the potential system failure issue?  Just curious.



On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 16:49:03 -0700, Stan Sieler <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>I assumed that the files are already distributed across
>a sufficient number of groups to avoid the system failure
>problem Donna's alluding to (otherwise, the subject would have
>been "how do I purge files with a system abort" :) ... but I should
>have clarified that anyway, thanks, Donna!
>(Note: the reverse alphabetic purge would avoid the system
>failure problem, which is a nice benefit.)
>
>Also, I didn't suggest the possibility of doing "PURGEGROUP"s
>for several reasons:
>
>  - I didn't know if there's a mix of saved/purged files in a
>    given group
>
>  - I haven't done testing to determine if that's faster
>    than purging all the files individually.
>
>Stan
>
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