in reply to oldfiles

This is a great idea for an app. Thanks! Just one quibble / suggestion:

The GNU "find" command should typically be available on most systems where this script would be useful (there's a windows port of "find" and now there's macos-X with a unix command-line interface available). When the file space to be searched is really big with lots of files and directories, the "find" utility will be at least 5 times faster than the File::Find module, and some users might really appreciate some means of using this when they happen to know it's available to them.

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Re: Re: oldfiles
by neilwatson (Priest) on Nov 15, 2002 at 13:58 UTC
    While my observations have been far from scientific it seems to me that File::Find is faster than GNU find. It's much, much faster than the find that comes with Solaris 7.

    Neil Watson
    watson-wilson.ca

      A while back, on another SoPW thread, I made up a simple benchmark -- I'd be interested to find out if you get very different results on a comparable directory tree (if you feel so inclined...) Thanks.