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    rsync can be faster than plain rm, because it guarantees the deletes in correct order, so less btress recomputation is needed. See this answer serverfault.com/a/328305/105902 Commented Jun 29, 2015 at 12:45
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    Can anyone modify the perl expression to recursively delete all directories and files inside a directory_to_be_deleted ? Commented Oct 6, 2015 at 15:43
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    Notes : add -P option to rsync for some more display, also, be careful about the syntax, the trailing slashes are mandatory. Finally, you can start the rsync command a first time with the -n option first to launch a dry run. Commented Oct 23, 2015 at 15:39
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    That perl command don't work Commented Nov 27, 2019 at 17:40
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    Ubuntu 20.04 that perl command does nothing. Does anybody have a recursive perl variant? And is there any way to get a progress bar for rsync? I tried -P and --info=progress2 but no progress bar. Commented Feb 21, 2022 at 16:31