Answer by Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams for How can rm -rf be slower than delete in...
Nautilus "deletes" files by moving them to the trash, and moving a file on the same filesystem is a very fast operation. You forgot to add the time taken emptying the trash into your observation.
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I had this very surprising situation recently, while trying to delete folders containing many files (think code repo checkout with some 10 thousands files):When I tried to do this via command line as I...
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