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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to list the files based on the modification time using the find command? Post 302604903 by Corona688 on Tuesday 6th of March 2012 09:36:56 AM
Old 03-06-2012
find is not a "go-faster ls". It uses the same readdir() calls, etc, that ls does.

So, if it's too many files for ls to handle, you are in trouble. You're choking your filesystem with too many millions of files in the same folder, something no filesystem handles well, and it will only get worse.

You'll need to reorganize in some way, methinks, so you don't have thousands of files in the same folder, and/or keep a log of when files arrive.
 

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