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From: tony@oha.UUCP (Tony Olekshy)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: ftw (Joe Pruett's descend).
Summary: Great!
Keywords: ftw descend
Message-ID: <391@oha.UUCP>
Date: 15 Dec 89 18:46:46 GMT
References: <152@norsat.UUCP> <2586@unisoft.UUCP> <159@norsat.UUCP> <1989Nov21.070322.6352@dragos.uucp> <1989Nov25.232922.11072@eng.umd.edu> <564@balthmus.tessi.UUCP>
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In-Reply-To: Message <564@balthmus.tessi.UUCP> dated 9 Dec 89 01:06:48 GMT
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In message <564@balthmus.tessi.UUCP>, joey@tessi.UUCP (Joe Pruett) writes:
>
> A quick hack I've used in a directory traversal program is to use the
> link count of . to determine how many subdirectories there are.  If .
> has no subdirectories, then you don't have to stat every file name.

This is great.
It's three times faster than find -print on my news spool directory.
I suggest you all grab <564@balthmus.tessi.UUCP> and keep it handy.

--
Yours, etc., Tony Olekshy (...!alberta!oha!tony or tony@oha.UUCP).