On Thursday 10 March 2005 11:02 am, Christos "TZOTZIOY" Georgiou wrote: > On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 16:13:20 -0600, rumours say that Terry Hancock > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> might have written: > > >For anyone interested in responding to the above, a starting > >place might be this maintenance script I wrote for my own use. I don't > >think it exactly matches the spec, but it addresses the problem. I wrote > >this to clean up a large tree of image files once. The exact behavior > >described requires the '--exec="ls %s"' option as mentioned in the help. > > The drawback of this method is that you have to read everything. For example, > if you have ten files less than 100KiB each and one file more than 2 GiB in > size, there is no need to read the 2 GiB file, is there? > > If it's a one-shot attempt, I guess it won't mind a lot. > > On POSIX filesystems, one has also to avoid comparing files having same > (st_dev, > st_inum), because you know that they are the same file.
Two good points, but hey, it ran fast enough for me. ;-) Cheers, Terry -- -- Terry Hancock ( hancock at anansispaceworks.com ) Anansi Spaceworks http://www.anansispaceworks.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
