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From: cosell@PROPHET.BBN.COM (Bernie Cosell)
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Subject: Dealing with large directories
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Date: Sun, 28-Jun-87 21:50:08 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun 28 21:50:08 1987
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I'd appreciate some shell-programming techniques for dealing with
large directories.  What would be really optimal would be techniques
that are effective enough that one could use them all the time and so
"bulletproof" ones shell files against running into a directory with
500 files in it or something like that.  Things like "[a-m]*/[n-z]*"
in two runs only work AFTER you get blown out of the water and you go
back and tune to the particular distribution to divide the dir up
correctly.  Are there tricks for making this sort of thing not be a
problem? 

Thanks
  /Bernie\

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