Great!
the command
/usr/bin/find . -type f -exec md5sum '{}' \\;
takes 3min 10s
the command
/usr/bin/find . -type f -exec md5sum \{} +
takes 25s.
the command
find . -type f | xargs md5sum
takes 17s
Many thanks, best regards!
B.Nicolotti
Il giorno lun, 24/11/2008 alle 16.35 +0100, Jörg Schaible ha scritto:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm using the command:
> >
> > /usr/bin/find . -type f -exec md5sum '{}' \\;
> >
> > to compare the content of two subtree(161Mbytes) on different systems,
> > one linux, and the other on windows with cygwin.
> >
> > The command on linux takes some seconds, while on windows+cygwin
> > takes some minutes.
> >
> > Could some one help me to speed-up things on windows+cygwin?
>
> Don't run the command for each file, try to use as much files as you can on
> one line (use '+' instead of ';'):
>
> /usr/bin/find . -type f -exec md5sum \{} +
>
> Hint: A fork is expensive in Cygwin ...
>
> - Jörg
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