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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting help on most efficient search Post 302182143 by era on Saturday 5th of April 2008 02:40:14 PM
Old 04-05-2008
Those are the tools I would use. Perhaps you could instead rearrange the directory structure so that all new files are in a "recent" directory tree, and then move them to the "main" directory tree when you no longer want to treat them as "recent"?

Which file system are you using? NTFS in particular is a real dog when it comes to coping with large directories. You might want to investigate whether it might make sense to switch to Reiser or XFS or something.

(I just happen to have a vague idea of what a lakh is, but you'd probably better avoid regional lingo like that in an international forum.)

Last edited by era; 04-05-2008 at 03:41 PM.. Reason: Wikipedia link for "lakh"
 

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SOELIM(1)						      General Commands Manual							 SOELIM(1)

NAME
soelim - interpret .so requests in groff input SYNOPSIS
soelim [ -Cv ] [ -Idir ] [ files... ] It is possible to have whitespace between the -I command line option and its parameter. DESCRIPTION
soelim reads files and replaces lines of the form .so file by the contents of file. It is useful if files included with so need to be preprocessed. Normally, soelim should be invoked with the -s option of groff. Note that there must be no whitespace between the leading dot and the two characters `s' and `o'. Otherwise, only groff interprets the .so request (and soelim ignores it). OPTIONS
-C Recognize .so even when followed by a character other than space or newline. -Idir This option may be used to specify a directory to search for files (both those on the command line and those named in .so lines). The current directory is always searched first. This option may be specified more than once, the directories will be searched in the order specified. No directory search is performed for files specified using an absolute path. -v Print the version number. SEE ALSO
groff(1) Groff Version 1.18.1 Apr 2002 SOELIM(1)
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