necrotic — Wed, 17 Dec 2003 17:09:14 +0000

Wish I had shell access, but I do not. This is running on my friends computer, he doesn't want to give out shell access unfortunatley. Thanks anyway, Mark. I'll check out forking, but it probably won't help as only one connection per IP is allowed every 60 seconds at least.

Mark Hensler — Wed, 17 Dec 2003 08:29:39 +0000

Hmmm... I don't think so. But I didn't examine it closer than a single read-through. It's your basic recursive function for directory browsing. Not much you can do to optimize that.

Of course, you could venture out into the world of forking (link). But I've never been there, and I honestly am not sure if you would see any performance increase. This is because I would assume each fork would need it's own FTP connection.

You obviously have FTP access. So can I assume you also have Telnet/SSH access?

Not the prettiest thing, I know. But it gives you the idea..

#!/bin/sh

indent=3
dir=`pwd`
tab=$indent

if [ $# -ge 1 ]; then
	dir=$1
fi

if [ $# -ge 2 ]; then
	tab=$2
fi

next=`expr $tab + $indent`

ls -p $dir | grep '/' | grep -v '@' | while read i; do
  echo "$dir/$i" $tab
  ./list_mp3.sh "$dir/$i" $next
done

ls -lhp $dir | grep -v '/' | awk '
  {
    if (NR>1) {
      printf "%'$tab's %sB\t%s\n", " ", $5, $9
    }
  }
'