Why does deleting a folder from the command line take longer than manual deletion?
124874
Why is "rm" so much slower than deleting files via the File Manager?
78092
How can I efficiently recover a permanently deleted folder at once?
148786
"No such file or directory" when trying to remove a file, but the file exists?
11108
How can Finder empty Trash more quickly than "rm -rf /Volumes/Foo/.Trashes/501/*"?
118763
Why is cp command 4 times slower than copying in Finder in OS X 10.6?
3545
How to delete a non-empty directory in Terminal?
149051
Auto deleting files older than given minutes on Windows
117049
Permission to delete from a directory
65864
How to delete files and folders that cannot be deleted?
40245
What does `. /path/command` do? (Space after dot, absolute path)
54488
How do I delete a folder that's in use?
145487
How do I delete a stubborn file in the Bin?
65675
Delete all files except specified files/folders using command line?
5168
How to force delete a file?
153515
Efficiently removing subdirectories in dirnames from os.walk
14120
Efficiently delete large directory containing thousands of files
131207
Removing the content of a directory recursively