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 -lpthread

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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?
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Using rsync is surprising fast and simple.

mkdir empty_dir
rsync -a --delete empty_dir/    yourdirectory/

another fast choice: Perl! Its benchmarks are faster than rsync -a --delete.

cd yourdirectory
perl -e 'for(<*>){((stat)[9]<(unlink))}'

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