Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 14:43:39 -0600 From: "Phillip Salzman" <phill@sysctl.net> To: "'Wolfgang Zenker'" <wolfgang@lyxys.ka.sub.org> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Very large directory Message-ID: <00d001c4ff30$bda2e960$6745a8c0@MESE> In-Reply-To: <m1CriWg-003pUXC@lyxys.ka.sub.org>
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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@lyxys.ka.sub.org] > Sent: January 20, 2005 2:04 PM > To: Phillip Salzman > Cc: 'Peter Jeremy'; stable@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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