在 python 中大量删除所有文件的最快方法？

Question

I want to completely clear the content of a very large Linux volume containing a huge number of small files. I know how to delete files, but just doing a for loop that calls delete on each one is very slow.

I'd just send a command down to bash to use bash tools, but were running in a docker alpine Linux container, so all the tools I would use don't exist. I suppose I could change the docker file to ensure their there but that's feeling a bit ugly.

Answer 1

Not sure about speed of this, but I guess you could try if you wanted.

Here is an example of how you could use shutil.rmtree to delete the contents of a directory:

import shutil

# Replace '/path/to/dir/' with the path of the directory you want to delete contents from
shutil.rmtree('/path/to/dir/')

This function will delete all subdirectories and files. It is important to use this function with caution, as it will delete the all contents permanently.