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

[David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>]

Quoting Jörg-Volker Peetz (jvpeetz@web.de):
> Correction of the "jot" command arguments:
> 
> Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote on 04/25/2015 16:15:
> > <snip>
> >>
> >> for i in `seq 5000`
> >> do
> >>   date=$((10000000+i))
> >>   cat <<EOF > "$dir/cur/$date.1.host:2,S"
> > <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 .

Apart from the fact that it doesn't (it only randomises the
filenames), it won't even generate 5000 files because of
duplication.

jot is neat, though. Thanks for mentioning it.

Cheers,
David.