In message <[email protected]>, Lie Ryan wrote:
> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > >> In message <%[email protected]>, Lie Ryan >> wrote: >> >>> Yeah, it might be possible to just mv the file from outside, but not >>> being able to enter a directory just because you've got too many files >>> in it is kind of silly. >> >> Sounds like a problem with your file/directory-manipulation tools. > > try an `ls` on a folder with 10000+ files. > > See how long is needed to print all the files. As I've mentioned elsewhere, I had scripts routinely dealing with directories containing around 400,000 files. > Ok, now pipe ls to less, take three days to browse through all the > filenames to locate the file you want to see. Sounds like you're approaching the issue with a GUI-centric mentality, which is completely hopeless at dealing with this sort of situation. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
