Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 09:02:47 +0100 (BST) From: Gordon Henderson <gordon@drogon.net> To: Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: deleted huge directory Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.971024090029.17490A-100000@unicorn> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.3.96.971024085905.6601A-100000@tui.pinnacle.co.nz>
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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
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