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What would happen if I ll over 600 folders at once? – Debian

I have an old dual core atom server with 4GB of RAM. I found all the git folders on the server with find / -name ".git" command and put over 600 lines of these git folders (output) in a file. Now I want to ll all those lines with ll $(<lines.txt) but I am not sure If that can crash the server.

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    It will not crash the server, but it might take long depending on the number of files in those directories. If they aren’t overly full of files, it might just take a few seconds or a minute. (this is very likely).

    It will cause IO load and probably cause re-adjusting of Linux IO buffers (depending on their size and state). Both shouldn’t be a problem unless the server is under extreme and performance critical load.

    I recommend to use:

    find / -type d -name ".git" -exec ls -al {} +

    or

    find / -type d -name ".git" -exec ls -alF  --group-directories-first {} +
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    You can try to log it directly to a txt file.

    find / -name ".git" > output-filename.txt

    You can see this reference.

    Before you are going to do that :

    1. Is it a production server? (since it has a small RAM)

    2. If it is a producttion server :

      • Do not do it on your server’s productive hour (the time when peoples are using it actively)
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