Re: How could you load only once a Linux ultility without a batch --input-files kind of option and repeatedly use it on many files? . . .

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Subject: Re: How could you load only once a Linux ultility without a batch --input-files kind of option and repeatedly use it on many files? . . .
From: David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com>
Date: Thu, 21 May 2020 15:41:54 -0700
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On 2020-05-21 08:52, davidson wrote:

On Thu, 14 May 2020, Albretch Mueller wrote:

The thing is that I have to call, say sha256sum, on millions of files

Probably debian admin people dealing with packaging have to deal with
the same kinds of issues.


For checksums, mtree(8) from package mtree-netbsd might be worth a look.


Been there, done that; I do not recommend it:

    https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2020/01/msg00488.html


David

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