I *think* that James Youngman was being sarcastic. If I'm wrong, then so much the better.
On 10/07/08 21:22, Mag Gam wrote:
Great. Thanks. Basically I have 500+ directories; each directory which has over 9000 files. I was wondering if there is a trick I can use. TIA On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 9:29 AM, James Youngman <jay@gnu.org> wrote:On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 11:18 AM, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:Since find is so disk-intensive, isn't this is only of benefit if /usr, /var and /home are on different devices?
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Yes. Disk-head-movement optimisation will not be implemented in findutils for another six weeks or so.
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