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in thread finding top 10 largest files

Purists may want to use File::Find instead of find.

That is, purists with lots of time on their hands... Whenever I have tried to compare "find" vs. "File::Find", the perl module seems to take about 5 time longer than the compiled utility, in terms of wallclock time to execute.

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Re: finding top 10 largest files
by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Feb 03, 2004 at 08:35 UTC
    Not alone is find usually faster to execute than File::Find, it takes less programmer time as well.

    Abigail