Re: output as found

2014-06-17 Thread Istvan Toth
Thank you for your suggestions. As I see my problem can be converted to a function request or a wish :-) If I strace 'ls -1f' I can see some getdents64() calls and write() calls in turns, so I think it is possible to list entries in case of no implicite or explicite sort. Best regards, Istvan

Re: output as found

2014-06-17 Thread Bernhard Voelker
On 06/11/2014 04:45 PM, Istvan Toth wrote: is there a way to list files immediately as 'find' finds them? The problem is when searching in large NFS-mounted directories (e.g. millions of files in a poorly designed, flat directory) we must wait for the big number of getdents64 calls to end up bef

output as found

2014-06-11 Thread Istvan Toth
Dear members, is there a way to list files immediately as 'find' finds them? The problem is when searching in large NFS-mounted directories (e.g. millions of files in a poorly designed, flat directory) we must wait for the big number of getdents64 calls to end up before we get the first entry fou