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Re: FYI: a 256,000,000-byte file name


From: Jim Meyering
Subject: Re: FYI: a 256,000,000-byte file name
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 15:30:54 +0100

address@hidden (James Youngman) wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 08:02:16PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> Just to prove I could do it, I constructed a hierarchy 1 million
>> (and one) levels deep, with each directory name being 255 bytes long.
...
> I wonder if 'ftsfind . -depth -delete' would work for this purpose also.

It does (at least for the 1M-level-deep, 2MB-long name).
Nice!  Will this version of find become the default soon?




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