Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 17:00:39 -0500 From: Bob K <melange@yip.org> To: paul beard <paulbeard@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: problems rebuilding locate database Message-ID: <20020324170039.D1331@yip.org> In-Reply-To: <3C9D65AC.30209@mac.com>; from paulbeard@mac.com on Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 09:35:40PM -0800 References: <3C9CEDC8.4070001@mac.com> <041f01c1d2b2$bce32920$0900a8c0@max> <3C9D0E29.70801@mac.com> <3C9D65AC.30209@mac.com>
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On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 09:35:40PM -0800, paul beard wrote:
> well, my earlier shell commands to find the length of all the
> files' paths were useless, but now that my young'uns are asleep, I
> came up with this.
>
> find / -type d | awk '{ a=length; print $0, a}' | sort -T . -k
> 2.1 -rnt ' ' -o sorted
>
> It works fine except for dumping the files with embedded spaces to
> the bottom of the list. I still find no paths longer than 200
> characters, nowhere near the 1035 locate was griping about.
Hmm. Perhaps you have some hard links to directories that may be
causing a loop of some sort? Just a theory...
--
Bob <melange@yip.org> | It's pretty good, if you don't think about it.
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