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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Tip: how to get the deepest directories Post 302978390 by jim mcnamara on Friday 29th of July 2016 02:25:47 PM

07-29-2016

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find(1) - Linux manual page

Quote:

-noleaf
Do not optimize by assuming that directories contain 2 fewer
subdirectories than their hard link count. This option is
needed when searching filesystems that do not follow the Unix
directory-link convention, such as CD-ROM or MS-DOS
filesystems or AFS volume mount points. Each directory on a
normal Unix filesystem has at least 2 hard links: its name and
its `.' entry. Additionally, its subdirectories (if any)
each have a `..' entry linked to that directory. When find is
examining a directory, after it has statted 2 fewer
subdirectories than the directory's link count, it knows that
the rest of the entries in the directory are non-directories
(`leaf' files in the directory tree). If only the files'
names need to be examined, there is no need to stat them; this
gives a significant increase in search speed.

To be honest, I never looked to see if a mounted CDROM used .. and . Good question, Don.

I assume this would apply to SMB mounts from FAT32 filesystems.

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nwdir

NWDIR(1)							       nwdir								  NWDIR(1)

NAME

       nwdir - Lists files in directory

SYNOPSIS

       nwdir [-h] [-v] [-l] [-t] [-d] [-e] [-f] [directory]

DESCRIPTION

       nwdir lists files, directories and their attributes from the specified NetWare directory.

OPTIONS

       -h
	  -h is used to print out a short help text.

       -d
	  List directories like other files, rather than listing their contents.

       -l
	  Show filename in all available namespaces.

       -v
	  Verbose listing, display everything possible.

       -e
	  Display OS/2 Extended Attributes.

       -f
	  List connections using each file.

       -t
	  Show all informations (rights, attributes, file inodes) also as hexadecimal numbers.

       directory
	  You  can  specify  the directory to list. Current working directory is used by default. You have to specify path in Linux format, not in
	  NetWare format.

EXAMPLES

       nwdir -t -v /NetWare/server/sys

       With this example, all files from directory /NetWare/server/sys are displayed.

AUTHORS

       nwdir was written by Milan Vandrovec. See the Changes file of ncpfs for other contributors.

BUGS

       Directory quotas are not displayed. User names are not taken from NDS, but only from bindery.

nwdir								     4/2/1998								  NWDIR(1)