compile sqlite3 to be a shared library

gcc -c -fPIC sqlite3.c # gcc -shared -o libsqlite3.so -fPIC sqlite3.o  gcc -shared -o libsqlite3.so -fPIC sqlite3.o -ldl -lpthre...

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Delete large directory containing thousands of files

We have an issue with a folder with hundreds of thousands of tiny files. There are so many files that performing rm -rf returns an error and instead what we need to do is something like: find /path/to/folder -name "filenamestart*" -type f -exec rm -f {} \; This works but is very slow and constantly fails from running out of memory. Is there a better way to do this? =====>> Using rsync is surprising fast and simple. mkdir...

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