Deleting directory with thousands of files?

From: Sixbury, Dan (dsixbury@hrblock.com)
Date: Thu May 25 2006 - 21:53:43 EDT

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Is there a faster way to delete a directory that has thousands of files
and sub directories? I have some software that I need to put on a
server and I need to remove the old data first, and a rm -R of the
directory has been running for hours.

Thanks
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