RE: Help needed

[Carlos Lopes]

Hi James,
Meanwhile I've managed to solve my problem using a batch file, but thanks 
anyway.
Best regards
Carlos 


-----Original Message-----
From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of James Youngman
Sent: quinta-feira, 10 de Setembro de 2015 23:33
To: Carlos Lopes
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Subject: Re: Help needed

On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 12:18 PM, Carlos Lopes <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
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>
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> I'm trying to use findutils to find files based on their name, but 
> since there are many patterns to search, I would like to know if it is 
> possible to pass a file with the patterns:


Roughly how many patterns?  20?  100_000_000?   Is it a fixed set or
does it change a lot?

For 20 relatively static patterns, you can make a single regex.   For
200 varying patterns you could use a shell loop to generate the
command line.   For 100_000_000 patterns you're better off generating
a list of all the files and then combining the patterns into 50_000 or so 
combined regexes.

IOW your optimal choice depends on, I think, details you didn't specify.

Could you provide more detail?

Thanks,
James.