File Walker

[Richard Gaskin]

I would encourage you to file a bug report on that.

Even if there turns out to be a good explanation, it needs to be documented.

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  Richard Gaskin
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Kay C Lan wrote:
> If I enter the following into OS X's Terminal:
>
> find $PWD
>
> the output is the over half a million folders and files in my
> /Users/[your name here]/ directory. So none of the System level stuff
> or anything from other User accounts if they exist on your computer.
> It does include though all hidden files and folders.
>
> But if I do this in the message box:
>
> put the millisec into tStart
> put shell("find $PWD") into tStore
> put the millisec into tEnd
> put the number of lines of tStore & cr into msg
> put tEnd - tStart after msg
>
> The output is 17795 lines (which is the equivalent of files and
> folders) in 231 ms. Why is LC truncating the output by over half a
> million lines?
>
> If I compare the outputs it doesn't appear to be memory related,
> unless it happens to be a 1 in a billion coincidence. The first folder
> whose full contents, including subfolders, is listed is
> ~/Applications/Developer/ - this is at the User level not the System
> Level Applications folder. The output from Terminal and LC are
> identical. The next folder to be listed from Terminal is
> ~/Applications/Games/ but there is not a single entry from the folder,
> or any other folder listed by LC. It's as if LC has chosen just one
> folder and then listed it's full contents, but I know this is
> illogical, the LC shell command is outside of LC's control, all it
> should be doing is taking the result.
>