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Re: Possible enhancement: file count
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Eric Blake |
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Re: Possible enhancement: file count |
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Mon, 29 Feb 2016 08:48:16 -0700 |
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On 02/29/2016 08:23 AM, Fernando Pereira wrote:
> Anyway, I was looking for the most efficient way to do that and I couldn't
> find satisfying answer. Of course we can use find | wc, but I am really
> looking for a simple and efficient solution just like du exists for the
> file size.
But 'find | wc' IS efficient, and already exists on every machine,
whereas a new method would only be available on machines updated to the
latest-and-greatest. Pipelines are cheap; I don't see any benefit to
bloating tools with a new option when existing options work well.
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Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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