On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 10:20:59AM -0500, David A. Bandel wrote:
>On Thu, 27 Dec 2001 19:51:45 +0800
>Chang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spewed into the bitstream:
>
>>
>> 1. is it possible to have 50000 files in a directory?
>> 2. how to copy it given the limit of the cp command?
>
>I'd use the find command:
>find . -exec cp {} <dest> \;
Actually ``find . | cpio -pdumv destdir'' is usually much more efficient as
it doesn't exec a cp command for each file, and it preserves the ownership,
timestamps, etc. of the original file.
On the other hand, 50,000 files in a single directory is probably a Very
Bad Idea(tm). At one time Unix file searches were quadratic WRT the number
of entries in the directory. I think this has improved with more recent
file systems, but I would avoid it in any case.
Bill
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