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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Making 99 folders 99 folders deep Post 302517023 by alister on Monday 25th of April 2011 10:59:43 PM
Old 04-25-2011
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Originally Posted by YukonAppleGeek
EDIT: After making all folders have 3 levels it took 23 min so maybe not 99 deep configurable deepness if posable?
That's a very good call. I'm not sure the universe is up to creating that many directories. 99 levels of 99 directories in 99 directories is a LOT of directories: 99^99 = 3.69729638 × 10^197

Allowing for the creation of one directory per nanosecond (unrealistically swift, 99^3 in 23 minutes is nearly 1.5 milliseconds) and suspending all other physical limitations, it would take:
99^99 * 10^-9 / 60 / 60 / 24 / 365 = 1.17240499 × 10^181 years

Many, many, many orders of magnitude beyond current estimates of the universe's age.

As to your original problem, a recursive shell function would probably be the simplest approach.

Regards and welcome to the forum,
Alister

Last edited by alister; 04-26-2011 at 12:08 AM..
 

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ocs(1)							      General Commands Manual							    ocs(1)

NAME
ocs - creates and maintains the database for cscope on a recursive directory set SYNOPSIS
ocs [-x] [-f] [-q] [-u] DESCRIPTION
This manual page briefly documents ocs , a shell script wrapper that automates the creation and maintenance of a cscope(1) database on a recursive set of directories. Under normal circumstances, ocs generates a cscope database on a recursive group of directories starting from the current working directory, before launching cscope(1) in interactive mode. OPTIONS
-x Enable debugging. -f Force. Do not ask about regenerating 'TMP' lists (lists generated by ocs ), just do it; Allow the regeneration of 'CSD' (lists gen- erated by cscope(1) ) lists. -q Tell cscope to build a fast reverse index. Database disk space usage is doubled, but searching speed is increased. -u Request that the database be updated or regenerated. FILES
./cscope.rc If this is an executable shell script, it will be included in the body of ocs in order to override intenal filenames and other options. See the comments at the top of /usr/bin/ocs for more information. BUGS
None noted. SEE ALSO
cscope(1), /usr/bin/ocs. AUTHORS
This manpage originally prepared by Nick Rusnov <nick@grawk.net> for the Debian Project. The Debian Project June 2001 ocs(1)
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