Very large directory
Phillip Salzman
phill at sysctl.net
Thu Jan 20 12:43:51 PST 2005
Yeah - I thought of that after the for loop had already been in the process
of starting for an hour. I figured I wasn't going to worry about it, and
just head to bed at that point. If I wasn't drunk at the time (I'll pretend
thats my excuse) I might have done a strings .| xargs instead of the shell
script.
Oh well. I can't really wo
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wolfgang Zenker [mailto:wolfgang at lyxys.ka.sub.org]
> Sent: January 20, 2005 2:04 PM
> To: Phillip Salzman
> Cc: 'Peter Jeremy'; stable at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Very large directory
>
>
> Hello Phillip,
>
> > I've received a couple perl scripts from a few different people. I
> > can't use any of them until this evening due to the current load of
> > the machines though. Last night I ended up doing a strings on the
> > directory, and taking its output into a for loop removing the files.
>
> if you have a bit of time to spare, take a look at the
> xargs(1) manpage. Using xargs instead of a for loop would
> have saved you a lot of time and system load (and a little
> bit of typing :-)
>
> Wolfgang
>
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