Re: Map out a directory heirarchy

2004-10-12 Thread John W. Krahn
Harry Putnam wrote: Harry wrote: This new coding although easier to look at and probably more efficient, isn't really any faster or at least not appreciably. It still goes to each and every numbered file. John replied: In most file systems the file names are not stored in any particular order so i

Re: Map out a directory heirarchy

2004-10-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry wrote: >> This new coding although easier to look at and probably more >> efficient, isn't really any faster or at least not appreciably. It >> still goes to each and every numbered file. John replied: > In most file systems the file names are not stored in any particular > order so in orde

Re: Map out a directory heirarchy

2004-10-09 Thread John W. Krahn
Harry Putnam wrote: I want to get a daily list of all the directories under a kind of large (by home standards) news heirarchy. I know a little about using File::Find but wonder if there is a better way. Here are the things one runs into with File::Find. if you run it looking for type d (-d) direct

Map out a directory heirarchy

2004-10-09 Thread Harry Putnam
I want to get a daily list of all the directories under a kind of large (by home standards) news heirarchy. I know a little about using File::Find but wonder if there is a better way. Here are the things one runs into with File::Find. if you run it looking for type d (-d) directories it still ta