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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: January 20, 2005 2:04 PM > To: Phillip Salzman > Cc: 'Peter Jeremy'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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 > _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
