When try to delete directory that contain a ton of files with rm -rf target_dir/
that very slow or even crashes, so we have other way to delete that directory with perl
or rsync
rsync way
mkdir empty_dir rsync -aP --delete emptr_dir/ target_dir
perl way
cd target_dir perl -e 'for(<*>){((stat)[9]<(unlink))}'
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