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You’re quite welcome. Its’ made me think though. I might play around with some PERL or C++ code to see how long it takes to run through my 60GB of disk space using some sort of recursive tree call and globs coupled with a filter…
If I count the files, then use that as an “estimate”, I can get an idea of how long it would take me to generate such a list. Then I can build a simple program that goes out and does the same thing, however instead of just counting, it will drop the filename scanned in a file, and whip a % out onto the screen for every X files it processes.
hmmm, oh wait. Perhaps I can write a perl script that calls the command line scanner…that might give me a better idea of how long it takes… hmmmmm. Can the command line scanner handle archives?
Of course using the command line scanner (even from a script) would be slower than using an OS level scanner, but it might be a neat trick….
Heck, I don’t even know if my PERL skills are up to handling such a task… its’ been awhile…LOL
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