On Nov 1, 2017, at 12:34 PM, Lizette Koehler <[email protected]> wrote: > > So I am not very good with Unix, and now I need to find any file in a large > number of directories one directory has 130 directories with the tail .new > (yep > clean up time) > > So in OMVS I know the find / -name \*.new could work. But with the number of > directories I have to search it is not performing > > I am thinking there could be a REXX in Unix written to do this. ls -al and > then > search through the output > > Maybe even using a grep. > > But with so many of you other there with really awesome UNIX skills, what > should > I, a novice, look at to be good performing, could be run in batch (Yep like > that > option) or produce a report in a file I can find that will show me all the > files > in all the directories that have the tail I am looking for.
I would be surprised if anything you put together like this would perform any better than `find’. Searching large Unix directories is typically pretty slow no matter how you go about it. (If you’re still using HFS that’s probably particularly true; I understand that zFS directory searches are faster.) -- Pew, Curtis G [email protected] ITS Systems/Core/Administrative Services ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
