Obtaining the size of a file

[John Craig]

Shelling out to grab a single file took around 250 millisecs - although 
if multi file sizes are required, you can tack them all into the one 
command line and send that to the shell - it still takes about the same 
time.

JC

Bill Marriott wrote:
> And how long does it take for you to shell out a dir for the 
> particular file you're interested in?
>
> "John Craig" <jc at spl21.net> wrote in message 
> news:462D4033.4050203 at spl21.net...
>> For only 1 folder containing 34,782 files on MY machine (3GHz, 512Mb 
>> RAM) which is not running any services.
>>
>> Time taken to get 'the detailed files';
>> 26888 millisecs = 26.888 seconds
>>
>> Size of output generated by rev for 'the detailed files';
>> 2543957 bytes = 2.5Mb
>>
>> On a busy server, the results could be considerably greater.  The 
>> fact that it amounts to just under 0.8 millisecs per file is 
>> irrelevant - If I need a few (or a few hundred) file sizes, I still 
>> need to wait for the entire output to be generated.  Economical?
>
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