On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 10:01:12PM +0100, Kim Madsen wrote: > Christoph Boget wrote on 26/01/2010 21:17: >> I've looked through the docs but was unable to find out if this is > possible; >> I hope it is. Is there a way that you get the size/length of the > collection >> to be iterated (e.g. the total number of files) without having to iterate >> through at least once? > > On Linux with safe mode off you can call system("du -hcs THE_DIR") to > get the size of all files, no iterations needed. This assumes the "du" command is available on the host system. Check first to make sure. Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php