looking for speed-up ideas

[Ram Bhamidipaty]

> William Park wrote:
> > Behold:
> >     egrep '^F' dumpfile | sort -t '/' -n -k 2,2 | tail -200
> > How fast does it run?
> 
> 
> That was my first thought too.  The problem is that it doesn't
> keep track of the directory names, which is needed to display
> the full path name, which I believe he dumps in
> 
>      for t in all_file_list:
>          print t[2], t[1], get_dir_name(t[3])
> 
> It's too bad he didn't include example output.



Here is the output that is generated (with a few modifications
from the original script):

276 name/bob/testing/BUILD_FLAGS
414 name/bob/testing/.envrc
3861 name/bob/testing/build_envrc
36505 name/bob/testing/make.incl
3150900 name/bob/big_file.tar.gz