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In response to a very simplistic solution suggestion using Shell, here is a basic version of what I use. The advantage of the solution below is that it is supposed to be much faster on directories with many files (I regularly use its full-blown version on directories with tens and hundreds of thousands of files).
Thanks for this -- the "simplistic solution" definitely bogs down when there's a significant number of files involved. Nice suggestion, I will try this next time I need to process a big directory tree.
Thanks for this -- the "simplistic solution" definitely bogs down when there's a significant number of files involved. Nice suggestion, I will try this next time I need to process a big directory tree.