Troels Henriksen <at...@sigkill.dk> writes: > Andrew Gwozdziewycz <w...@apgwoz.com> writes: > >> Assume that each filter halves the fileset of, say, 256 files (my /etc >> directory on this OSX machine has just 247 files). That's less than >> 512 calls with a few filters. Is that really so bad on modern >> hardware? > > If you have only 256 files, you can do almost anything and it'll still > be fast. Think tens of thousands, at the very least. > > I like the general idea of this, but I'd advise you not to go overboard > with the tool splitting. You can easily have a single "filegrep" tool > that includes all queries about size, age and the like, paired with > another tree-walking fool.
Actually, on second thought, there's no way to make this fast. You *must* be able to perform filtering during tree traversal, or you may end up traversing huge subdirectories unnecessarily. -- \ Troels /\ Henriksen
