Re: [MLUG] Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] directory listings?

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Mike Miller wrote:
> 
> I moved this from the discussion list to the membership list...
> 
> Michael wrote:
> 
> > Can anyone think what the easiest method to search through a list of
> > subdirectories for any files with the same names? Each subdirectory
> > has thousands of files in it so effeciency is important. Thanks.
> 

What I would do is a find for each directory, saving each as a file.
Then I would merge the files.  Then I would do a sort on the big
file, sorting to whatever comes after the last "/" in each line.
Then I would look through the sorted file looking for consecutive
entries whose part after the last "/" match.  I would do these
using a perl script or a sequence of perl scripts.


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