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Monthly Archives:: August 2011

You can list a directory containing 8 million files! But not with ls..

Posted August 11, 2011 by ben & filed under developers.

I needed to list all files in a directory, but ls, find, and os.listdir all hung. This is my story. NOTE: there is no good reason that you should ever have 8 million files in the same directory, but if you do, this is your solution . TLDR: Write a C program that calls the… Read more »

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