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literally millions of files

Name: TRISTAN 2008-02-07 12:58

when i have them all in a directory, GNU tools choke on my ram
so what is /comp/s way to deal with a wikipedia dump of 15 million files ?

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-07 13:18

xargs

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-07 13:26

xargs expects lines from stdin so you have to pipe the filenames via find or ls but 15 mill. is too much to be piped.

I use perl:
opendir DIR, "bla";
while defined readdir DIR { do some stuff }

did 1mill files per minute

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-07 13:29

xargs wont help - ls still does reserve ram -_-

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-08 2:50

>>1
I think you made a typo... you said GNU and I think you meant GUN. A GUN is a type of ranged firearm used to hunt and kill. Unless you were talking about GNUs which are a type of bird or something

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-08 4:17

i think he ment cnu which is sorta like a boat.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-08 12:46

NUG??

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-09 8:40

>>5
GNU is not Unix.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-09 10:38

>>5
Wildebeests are birds now? They don't even lay eggs.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-09 12:45

>>9
They lay baby GNUs.  They're like eggs with feet.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-09 12:54

>>8
What does GNU stand for? I'm having difficulty parsing the acronym

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-09 16:39

>>11
GNU's Not emU.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-09 18:18

It's a wildebeest? Mmmm yes

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-09 18:22

Wildebeest eh? I knew I should have googled GNU first before I wrote >>5

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-10 1:06

>>11
GNU is an acronym that stands for GNU's Not Unix.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-10 1:36

>>15
stop trolling you asshole. that doesn't even make sense.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-10 5:37

>>15
That has to be the most moronic troll I've ever seen. What the fuck.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-10 5:46

>>16,17
HAHAHA. Troll? Try the truth. Try reading this transcript by the creator of GNU. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/stallman-kth.html
If you don't want to bother, search for the section that says
And that word is of course GNU, which stands for ``Gnu's Not Unix''.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-10 6:19

>>18
You fail it.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-10 6:45

>>18
There isn't a facepalm big enough to cover your failery.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-10 8:24

>>18
Excellent trolling, Sir.

Name: I haz been trolled 2008-02-10 9:01

lol
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_operating_system
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/stallman-kth.html

Its name is a recursive acronym for GNU's Not Unix; it was chosen because its design is Unix-like, but differs from Unix by being free software and by not containing any Unix code.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-10 10:47

>>22
Only the most elite of trolls vandalize Wikipedia articles to support their troll posts. Kudos.

Name: I haz been trolled 2008-02-10 11:30

>>23

Thanks. I do my best.
And please don't report my vandalism. I want to troll some more with it.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-10 17:39

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-11 0:28

>>>21
I'm confused. How did I troll anybody?

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-11 4:16

>>26
you didn't cause everyone was on to you.

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