Re: the correct way to read a big directory? Mutt?

[Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de>]

Correction of the "jot" command arguments:

Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote on 04/25/2015 16:15:
> Hi,
> 
> <snip>
>> Now, the test. First, I create a big maildir folder with:
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>> #!/bin/sh
>>
>> set -e
>>
>> dir=maildir-test
>> rm -rf "$dir"
>> maildirmake "$dir"
>>
>> for i in `seq 5000`
>> do
>>   date=$((10000000+i))
>>   cat <<EOF > "$dir/cur/$date.1.host:2,S"
>> From: <a@b.invalid>
>> Subject: $date
>> Message-ID: <$date@vinc17.org>
>>
>> test $i
>> EOF
>> done
>> ------------------------------------------------------------
> <snip>
> 
> the situation becomes much worse if you generate the filenames from a random
> sequence. Try to replace the command "seq" by "jot" from the package athena-jot like
> 
> for i in $(jot 5000 1 5000)
> 
for i in $(jot -r 5000 1 5000)

> That makes the numerical order of the files have a random i-node number sequence .

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Regards,
jvp.