When does recursion limit bite you?

[stephen barncard]

Thanks, Andre

My MacOS shell call (and terminal) doesn't seem to recognize the 'tree
command'

"no manual entry for tree"

sqb

On 4 October 2011 08:22, Andre Garzia <andre at andregarzia.com> wrote:

> Stephen,
>
> If you can afford to waste some performance and know what platform you are
> using, then, you can build a two pass algorithm.
>
> The first pass just collect the file references, full path, one per line.
>
> Then you filter this for the extensions you need and after that you process
> it as usual.
>
> If you are in mac os x, then you can use:
>
> set the defaultfolder to "parent folder"
> put shell("tree -i -f") into theFileList
>
> This should work on Mac OS X and Linux but not on Windows.
>
> :-D
>
> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 11:54 AM, stephen barncard <
> stephenREVOLUTION2 at barncard.com> wrote:
>
> > Funny that this comes up at this moment - I've been trying to work with a
> > 'Directory Walker' recursive script (thanks Scott Rossi) and really can't
> > make it very useful, I keep raising the recursionlimit to millions, but
> it
> > eventually will crash on more dense stacks. I included a visible counter
> to
> > keep track of iterations, but they only go into the thousands, not
> millions
> >
> > This is using Scott's walker from 2002, and the only modification was a
> > test
> > for file suffix to get a list of certain files  by file types.
> >
> > Mark, you say that there's a bug in the IDE that makes this worse? Does
> > that
> > mean 'walkers' work properly in a standalone?
> >
> > Another question is  - is there another, non-recursive way to walk all
> > folders? Some kind of two-pass method? Or is this just the way it is?
> >
> > On 4 October 2011 05:30, Andre Garzia <andre at andregarzia.com> wrote:
> >
> > > http://docs.runrev.com/Property/recursionLimit
> >
> >
> >
> >
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