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From: dlau@mipos2.intel.com (Dan Lau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ncr
Subject: Re: Huge directory
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Date: 14 Sep 90 19:12:24 GMT
References: <309@gandp> <206@bilpin.UUCP> <639@ncrsea.Seattle.NCR.COM>
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In article <639@ncrsea.Seattle.NCR.COM> dmdc@ncrsea.UUCP (Dennis M. Dooley) writes:
>>> A client's 32/650 is producing a "Huge directory" message when 
>>> find is used to access a particular directory.  We moved some
    ^^^^
>>> files elsewhere, but still get the message; there are 1401 files
>>> in the directory now.
>>> 
>    An alternative approach would be:
>
>	mv <dir> <dir.old>
>	mkdir <dir>
>	cd <dir.old>
>	find . -print|cpio -pduvlm ../<dir>
	^^^^
>	cd ..
>	rm -rf <dir.old>
>_________________________________________________________________________
>Dennis M. Dooley     NCR Seattle Washington
>ncrsea!dmdc

Am I missing something or did the original poster CLEARLY said that
using the "find" command over the huge directory does not work?