Hello Bartolomeo, * On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 04:27:29PM +0100 Bartolomeo Nicolotti wrote: > /usr/bin/find . -type f -exec md5sum '{}' \\; [...] > Could some one help me to speed-up things on windows+cygwin?
Just a guess: /usr/bin/find . -type f|xargs md5sum (Background: I expect the execution of md5sum to take much time. Thus, with the xargs approach, I make sure the md5sum is called less times, with more than one parameter each time - which will *hopefully* decrease the time) HTH, Spiro. -- Spiro R. Trikaliotis http://opencbm.sf.net/ http://www.trikaliotis.net/ http://www.viceteam.org/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/