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Posted by Tom Rogers on 07/06/05 09:19
Hi,
Wednesday, July 6, 2005, 2:43:38 PM, you wrote:
RL> Suppose I have a directory with a HUGE number of filenames, all of which
RL> happen to look like integers:
RL> ~/nntp/1
RL> ~/nntp/2
RL> ~/nntp/3
RL> .
RL> .
RL> .
RL> ~/nntp/59874
RL> ~/nntp/59875
RL> ~/nntp/59876
RL> Now, in a PHP script, what's the most efficient way to find the "largest"
RL> filename, where "largest" means in the sense of an integer, not a string?
RL> I could probably force the filenames to be 0-padded if that would make a
RL> significant difference.
RL> Is there some nifty shell command I should just "exec"?...
RL> I don't really care which shell, but I'm a bash user generally.
RL> Obviously I could loop through all the filenames, so I'm looking for
RL> something faster than that. :-)
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You could try:
$last = exec('ls -D /fullpath/nntp | sort -n');
echo "Largest: $last<br>";
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regards,
Tom
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