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Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 09:02:47 +0100 (BST)
From: Gordon Henderson <gordon@drogon.net>
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To: Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz>
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Subject: Re: deleted huge directory
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On Fri, 24 Oct 1997, Jonathan Chen wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Oct 1997, Greg Lehey wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Oct 23, 1997 at 10:01:46AM +0100, Gordon Henderson wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> > > Find will try to sort the directory first before printing it - I belive
> > > it's the sort that causes the machine to run out of memory. 
> > 
> > Yes, this is a good point.
> 
> find(1) doesn't sort the output (if all you're doing is -print), the
> order of it's output is effectively the same as 'ls -f'.

Indeed! When I did a quick check yesterday, I was running it on one of my
own control/cancel directorys which is already sorted by the fact that the
filenames are entirely numeric and created in ascending order! 

Gordon