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Re^2: Automatically distributing and finding files in subdirectoriesby shmem (Chancellor) |
| on Jul 18, 2006 at 07:42 UTC ( [id://561948]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
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The big problem with linux and directory listing is the expensive lstat call done by ls. I had a case where listing took minutes, the directory contained somewhat over 300.000 files.
The cheapest way to get at the files at the system level is find $dir which doesn't call lstat. --shmem _($_=" "x(1<<5)."?\n".q·/)Oo. G°\ /
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