Re: A different take on directorywalking

2015-11-11 Thread Alex Tweedly
If you think that the recursion is the cause of any perceived slow-down, there is an alternative of using a non-recursive version in pure LC. I posted one such example to the use-list on 26th Oct in the thread recursion limit when creating file list of harddrive And being pure LC, you ca

Re: A different take on directorywalking

2015-11-11 Thread Bob Sneidar
Whoa! So long as the tree is in your own yard... ;-) Bob S On Nov 11, 2015, at 07:52 , Kevin Miller mailto:ke...@livecode.com>> wrote: so not long to wait (touchwood!). ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this ur

Re: A different take on directorywalking

2015-11-11 Thread Kevin Miller
Indeed he has. However I suspect that it may be this patch in fact goes into DP10 as it is still undergoing final refinements. We are keen to keep the momentum up with 8 and would like to get a DP9 out imminently to resolve some other issues that have come up. We will be aiming for a DP10 only days

Re: A different take on directorywalking

2015-11-11 Thread Richard Gaskin
Malte Brill wrote: > as the livecode solutions tend to become rather slow if there is > a certain amount of nesting involved, I want to come up with a shell > alternative to directorywalking. I would be interested in your benchmarks. In my own (limited) testing I've found that once we added appr

Re: A different take on directorywalking

2015-11-11 Thread Peter TB Brett
On 11/11/2015 13:40, Malte Brill wrote: Hi Mike, thanks for the reply! For the Mac I seem to be able to use: put "find -d tree“ && tPath && "-type f“ into tShellCommand For Windows of course I forgot to replace the backslashes with slashes. Not sure if find is available and has the same swi

Re: A different take on directorywalking

2015-11-11 Thread Malte Brill
Hi Mike, thanks for the reply! For the Mac I seem to be able to use: put "find -d tree“ && tPath && "-type f“ into tShellCommand For Windows of course I forgot to replace the backslashes with slashes. Not sure if find is available and has the same switches on Linux though… All the best, Mal

Re: A different take on directorywalking

2015-11-11 Thread Mike Doub
I think the issue you are going to run into is going to be the output format.  On both Mac and Linux you are going to be using the "ls -R" command. Do a search on unix ls command and you can see some example outputs in some of the articles. -= Mike On Nov 11, 2015, 7:54 AM, at 7:54 AM, Ma