Vince, find will work better for you in that situation. Its still going to take a god awfull long time but at least you'll be able to see it while it works. find . -maxdepth 1 There are several different ways to have the output go to a file within find itself rather than just redirecting the output. You can look them up in the ACTIONS section of the man page. Russell On 6/6/06, Esquivel, Vicente <Esquivelv@xxxxxxx> wrote:
I wouldn't need it if it weren't for a problem that we were having with our Veritas Netbackup server not being able to backup this specific server. So the Veritas support folks wanted to get a listing of the files in that directory. Vince > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of > McDougall, Marshall (FSH) > Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 11:00 AM > To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list > Subject: RE: listing a huge amount of file on one file system > > "One of our servers that is running on RHEL 4, has a > directory that contains over 2 millions files in it and growing" > > Silly question: > > If the directory has over 2,000,000 files in it, why would > you want to do an ls -l? Is there something more specific > that you are trying to accomplish with a file listing? > > Regards, Marshall > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
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