07-06-2011
I am also quite sceptical.
By the way,
ls perform an ascii sorting by default if you are in a directory with several tousands of files, this sorting operation can be consumming and may slow down the processing.
To avoid it you can use the
-f option to get the inode in the order they will comme from the directory structure, this will avoid useless sorting, especially when you pipe your ls output in a
wc -l
A lot of the performance problem are because of weak algorithm logic or approach, going through a redesigning step logic can then speed up processing.
I am curious to see the code of the initial "poor performance" script that was using the
find command.
Sharing your code is still a nice intention.
Here are some example of performance problem because of wrong logic or bad use of find command :
https://www.unix.com/shell-programmin...nce-issue.html
https://www.unix.com/unix-dummies-que...-txt-file.html
Last edited by ctsgnb; 07-06-2011 at 03:08 PM..
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