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cc: 'Peter Jeremy' <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au>
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Subject: RE: Very large directory
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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]=20
> Sent: January 20, 2005 2:04 PM
> To: Phillip Salzman
> Cc: 'Peter Jeremy'; stable@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Very large directory
>=20
>=20
> Hello Phillip,
>=20
> > I've received a couple perl scripts from a few different people.  I=20
> > can't use any of them until this evening due to the current load of=20
> > the machines though.  Last night I ended up doing a strings on the=20
> > directory, and taking its output into a for loop removing the files.
>=20
> if you have a bit of time to spare, take a look at the=20
> xargs(1) manpage. Using xargs instead of a for loop would=20
> have saved you a lot of time and system load (and a little=20
> bit of typing :-)
>=20
> Wolfgang
>=20