Thanks Matt. I suppose I could use rsync to know how big a directory
is then...right?

rsync --progress -avzL -n /source /foo

That should give me the total number of bytes to transfer

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Matt McCutchen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 07:31 -0400, Mag Gam wrote:
>> Does rsync use stat()? does find use stat() when running with printf?
>> I think the stat() is the most expensive part.
>
> Rsync and "find -printf" both use stat(2).
>
> Matt
>
>
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