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Re: fast count files

by BrowserUk (Patriarch)
on Jan 06, 2012 at 08:17 UTC ( [id://946550]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to fast count files

What OS? Which filesystem?

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Re^2: fast count files
by gautamparimoo (Beadle) on Jan 06, 2012 at 08:50 UTC
    Windows os NTFS filesystem

      If you literally just want to count the files on the entire disk, this is by far the fastest simple method I know of.

      It counts the 1.2 million files on my cold-cache, 640GB (400GB used) drive in a little under 7 minutes:

      $t=time; $n = `attrib /s c:\\* | wc -l`; printf "$n : %.f\n", time()-$t;; 1233597 : 394

      Try it and see how you fare. I vaguely remember finding a faster method years ago, and I'll try to remember enough to look it up.

      Note: Don't do my @files = `attrib /s c:\\*`; my $n = scalar @files; All the memory allocation slows things down horribly.


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      The start of some sanity?

        You might have issues using wc -l on Windows, unless you have installed it from somewhere like GNU. However it is easy to implement your own in Perl.
        Based on BrowserUk's ideas:
        use strict; use warnings; my $t=time; # $n = `attrib /s c:\\* | wc -l`; open (my $pipe, '-|', 'attrib /s c:\\*') or die "attrib: $!"; my $n = 0; while (<$pipe>) { $n++ } close $pipe; printf "$n : %.f\n", time()-$t;
        Gives: 380366 : 135 on a used space of 297GB.

        Thanks for that quick reply But I have 2 use my @files = `attrib /s c:\\*`; my $n = scalar @files; as without it says that wc is an unrecognised command .Also the I am showing the code of the fastest method I know

        use strict; my $f; # number of files my $d; # number of dirs sub count_files { my ($ref) = @_; foreach my $dir (@$ref) { $dir = readlink $dir and chop $dir if -l $dir; # read link next unless opendir(my $dir_h, $dir); # open dir o ++r next my @dirs; while (defined(my $file = readdir $dir_h)) { if ($file eq '.' or $file eq '..') { next; } if (-d "$dir/$file") { ++$d; # counting d +irs push @dirs, "$dir/$file"; } elsif(-f _) { ++$f; # counting f +iles } } closedir $dir_h; count_files(\@dirs); } [$f, $d]; } foreach my $arg (@ARGV) { my @dir = -d $arg ? $arg : next; ($f, $d) = (0, 0); print "$arg\nFiles\t: $$_[0]\nFolders\t: $$_[1]\n" for count_files +(\@ dir); }

        suggest a faster method and also how to run without using my @files = `attrib /s c:\\*`; my $n = scalar @files;

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