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Thanks for your answer! time results: your command - 1.24 minutes, etopylight's command - 2.45 minutes for 300 000 dirs.

konstantin_doncov
– konstantin_doncov

2017-11-27 02:56:20 +00:00
Commented Nov 27, 2017 at 2:56
Nice, didn't know that print can be piped to an external command inside awk :)

etopylight
– etopylight

2017-11-27 06:46:07 +00:00
Commented Nov 27, 2017 at 6:46
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@etopylight, thank you! Awk has some very cool details. The main reason why why awk is fast is that disk mechanical elements end up making it "serial". Your solution (that I up-voted) is very useful for the (and faster) for the not-so-IO-intensitive situations.

JJoao
– JJoao

2017-11-27 08:29:49 +00:00
Commented Nov 27, 2017 at 8:29
@don-prog, thank you the comment and for the time results.

JJoao
– JJoao

2017-11-27 14:10:50 +00:00
Commented Nov 27, 2017 at 14:10

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