listing a huge amount of file on one file system

[Russell Harrison]

Vince,

find will work better for you in that situation.  Its still going to take a
god awfull long time but at least you'll be able to see it while it works.

find . -maxdepth 1

There are several different ways to have the output go to a file within find
itself rather than just redirecting the output.  You can look them up in the
ACTIONS section of the man page.

Russell

On 6/6/06, Esquivel, Vicente <Esquivelv at uhd.edu> wrote:
>
> I wouldn't need it if it weren't for a problem that we were having with
> our Veritas Netbackup server not being able to backup this specific
> server.  So the Veritas support folks wanted to get a listing of the
> files in that directory.
>
> Vince
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com
> > [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of
> > McDougall, Marshall (FSH)
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 11:00 AM
> > To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> > Subject: RE: listing a huge amount of file on one file system
> >
> > "One of our servers that is running on RHEL 4, has a
> > directory that contains over 2 millions files in it and growing"
> >
> > Silly question:
> >
> > If the directory has over 2,000,000 files in it, why would
> > you want to do an ls -l?  Is there something more specific
> > that you are trying to accomplish with a file listing?
> >
> > Regards, Marshall
> >
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