Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] new mailman cron job

[Jim Meyering]

address@hidden (Karl Berry) wrote:
>     `ls -U` may be faster than the `find`
>
> Either way I surmised it's a matter of reading every dirent, and I
> figured that should be about the same whichever program does it.
>
>     but I'm not sure what your script does.
>
> Nothing complicated, though no doubt Jim will find a zillion suboptimal
> things in it :).

:)

I was surprised to see how small the directory was, too.
If it were really big, it _might_ be worthwhile to filter via find
rather than making find generate a ton of output only to filter
the result via grep right afterwards.