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From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Ugly file name
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Date: 23 May 89 03:26:13 GMT
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In article <131@hydra.ecrcvax.UUCP> johng@hydra.UUCP (John Gregor) writes:
>In article <105096@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> jackh@sun.UUCP (John Hevelin) writes:
>>   find . -inum 12345 -exec cat {} \; > goodfile
>Am I missing something?  Wouldn't
>
>	find . -inum 12345 -exec mv {} goodfile \;
>
>be a bit more efficient?

Most definitely.... *especially* if the file in question is a sparse
file, such as the type created by dbm.  The former solution will make
"goodfile" actually take up as much space as the original file *said*
(in a directory listing) it was taking up, even if in actuality it was
taking up much less due to the way sparse files are stored.  The
latter solution will not have this problem.

(Copy dbm files over NFS?  Sure, no problem :-)

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