[Gllug] Script for splitting dirs

[itsbruce at uklinux.net]

On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 01:51:55PM +0100, Tethys wrote:
> 
> itsbruce at uklinux.net writes:
> 
> >Use Perl.  This would be a complete pain to do as a shell script.
> 
> Not really. The only issue is getting the filesize, which is either
> done by parsing the output of ls, or calling a helper application.

I'm not one of those to use Perl in all circumstances, no matter what: a
combination of shell scripts and awk is often all that's needed.  But
bash scripts wouldn't be my choice for manipulating arrays, particularly
if I wanted to do any clever sorting to save space.   To each his own.

-- 
Bruce


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