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QuickSearch for files and directories
I have a project where I need to search for directories and files. In fact I'm searching for paths in other projects. I don't want to just find files but I also want to exclude some directories or ...
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Powershell search millions of files as fast as possible
I once asked a similar question but in C#. Now I have the same problem in powershell..
What is the fastest way, to search files newer than 15 minutes, in a file system with more than 1 million files?
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Filesystem search class in C#
Anyone can tell how to make this code faster?
This search takes too much time... 700 000 files for 15 minutes...
I will be grateful for each micro optimization!
Search Class:
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Recursive filename search
I have created a little program to search a set of folders holding documents scanned.
The folder structure is as follows:
c:\images\year\month\date\documenttype\firstpartofdocumentNo.\
the ...
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Mapping phone numbers to names [closed]
Problem description:
You are given a phone book that consists of your friend's names and
their phone number. After that you will be given your friend's name
as query. For each query, print the ...
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Search utility that searches through source code files
I'm working on a search utility that searches through source files. It's only the beginning of the project. It lacks a lot of features, but a backbone of the project works and it would be great if you ...
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Search through .xml files for text that exists anywhere in the file
I have about 1000 .xml files in different sub directories under one root folder.
My root directory contains the below structure:
RootDir\172\00ad8dc-bff\25.0.xml
<...
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Fastest way searching specific files
I got thousands of files with a specific file extension in thousands of sub folders. Now, what is the fastest way to search with a pattern? I tried the method ...
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Search a file system for files that match a given pattern
My concerns with this code:
Is there a more efficient way to find files by pattern in Python?
Does os.walk() work in Windows?
Is this code pythonic?
Should <...
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File text searcher
I have a working version of a logfile searcher that targets a specific directory by extension type, and searches the files for certain words.
I'm wondering if my method is the most efficient ...
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