Re: Trim directory to search?

[Peng Yu]

> find .  \( -type d -exec test -e {}/.ignore \; -prune \) -o ....
>
> will do something like what you want.   But, again, it's not
> efficient, since it performs one fork/exec per subdirectory.   A more

I think that given the current wide availability of multicore, if
'find' can take make a multithreaded approach the slow download caused
by calling external programs can be minimize. May I suggest this
feature be added to 'find'?

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Regards,
Peng