On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 11:24:49AM +1300, Jason Haar wrote: > Says it all really. I'm hoping there's some escape char trick I could do > to make this work? Recursing through all the directories would obviously > work, but this is for a script that runs over the WAN, so performance is > a major issue - I literally just want to see if a file exists in one of > the next layers down. Just getting the wildcard through (I think CIFS > allows that?) would solve the problem. I could use mount.cifs - but this > scripts runs massively in parallel and I dread mounting and unmounting > on that scale - smbclient is the perfect tool for the job (if only it > worked ;-) > > I've tried this with 3.2.11, I'm assuming it still affects the current > version
Actually I don't think this would work even to a Windows server. The wildcard is only allowable in the last component of a path. Otherwise it's incredibly expensive to do this search, and doesn't match a search within an open directory file handle (which is what Windows does internally when doing a FindFirst). Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
