Kudos from kenneth,
   for Super Search Foo;

I compliment your
       Title::Parser too!

But "less than" points left,
   and programmed sans heft:

A simple last is fine,
   if nine-nine-nine-nine.

   It's writing more than
that's made OP wan.

   Millions is his plight;
Millions! To the right!

   And folder misleads,
it's really folders --

   "How to write million
files to subfolders"?

   (sigh; ex pee depletes
as post gets older...)

While I think "<" is the best of the two, I had to read the post to make sense of the title. It's not a question of "<" vs ">". It's broken either way. Appropriate titles:

• Limiting a folder to < 10K files
• Avoiding the creation of > 10K files per folder
• Splitting 1 million files into multiple folders

None of them are particularly searchable, though.

Using 'fewer than' in place of '<' would clear the issue up unless you happen to be a super market employee (in which case you don't understand the difference between 'fewer' and 'less').

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Perl's payment curve coincides with its learning curve.

I'm out of votes, or I would ++ your above node. This tickles the creative side of my brain (ie - it made me smile).

However, I still personally believe that you are misreading the intent of the original post. It is ambiguous and can be read either way, yes, but since there is usually nothing limiting a sub directory to only holding 10K files, the only parsing of the original post (without an update from the poster) that is left is that there is a requirement that no more than 10K files can be in any folder.

Now, if chuckd clarifies his intent, then I will reconsider my decision. Until that time, the other parsing of the title and question is <spock>highly illogical</spock>. ;-)

Note to chuckd and other future posters - please re-read your posts and clarify them (with updates noted) if others are not clear on your question.

--MidLifeXis