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Finding a large number of files - ls vs file_search? [message #77109]

Tue, 09 August 2011 01:56

rjp23
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Registered: June 2010

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I have ascii output from some code that numbers in the tens of
thousands of files (e.g. 60,000).

I want to read these in in IDL, check the result and only select the
files where the result meets a certain condition.

I have this all coded up and it works fine for smaller sets of data
but it can take a long long time for file_search to return a result
when searching 60,000 files.

My question is would it be more efficient to spawn an ls command or
something else rather than using file_search within IDL?

Cheers

Rob

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		Finding a large number of files - ls vs file_search? By: rjp23 on Tue, 09 August 2011 01:56
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