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in reply to Re^2: Perl Program to efficiently process 500000 small files in a Directory (AIX)
in thread Perl Program to efficiently process 500000 small files in a Directory (AIX)

Well I can assure you that you can believe it. Remember there are around 1million files dropped into this directory each day. Of these 1 million around half are the files I'm looking for to move into another directory. I commented out the "Move" out of the above script on this thread and it ran in 1 hour and 20 minutes