Question

As i have a serous sever performance warning with installing drupal-commons (this is a installation-profile) i now want to reduce the server load.
Why – i get a message when trying to install drupal commons: Too-many-files-open it says!
Well Drupal & modules (ab)uses too many files! 50,000 maximum files and maybe 5000 directories is their goal and that si what they only backup so its in
So my question: How can i get rid of all those silly translation files or whatever for tiny miny parts of info and
unnecesary subdivisions; How i can get rid of them!

Background: I would expect that file_exists() during the installation(or bootstrap-cycle) is the most expensive built-in PHP function measured as total time spent calling the function for all invocations in a single request.

Well now i try to get rid of all the overhead (especially of the translation-files that are so called – po-files) – and unnecessary files that are contained in the drupal-commons 6.x-2.3 in order to get it runnning on my server.

i want to get rid all those silly translation files or whatever for tiny miny parts of info and unnecesary subdivisions;

How to search for all those .po-files recursivly – with GREP i guess ..
Note: i do not now where they are!

linux-vi17:/home/martin/web_technik/drupal/commons_3_jan_12/commons-6.x-2.3/commons-6.x-2.3 # lsCHANGELOG.txt       
   ._.htaccess          install.php        modules       themes
._CHANGELOG.txt              ._includes           INSTALL.txt        ._profiles    ._update.php
COMMONS_RELEASE_NOTES.txt    includes             ._INSTALL.txt      profiles      update.php
._COMMONS_RELEASE_NOTES.txt  ._index.php          LICENSE.txt        ._robots.txt  UPGRADE.txt
COPYRIGHT.txt                index.php            ._LICENSE.txt      robots.txt    ._UPGRADE.txt
._COPYRIGHT.txt              INSTALL.mysql.txt    MAINTAINERS.txt    ._scripts     ._xmlrpc.php
._cron.php                   ._INSTALL.mysql.txt  ._MAINTAINERS.txt  scripts       xmlrpc.php
cron.php                     INSTALL.pgsql.txt    ._misc             ._sites
.directory                   ._INSTALL.pgsql.txt  misc               sites
.htaccess                    ._install.php        ._modules          ._themes
linux-vi17:/home/martin/web_technik/drupal/commons_3_jan_12/commons-6.x-2.3/commons-6.x-2.3 # grep .po

Any way i want to remove all .po files with one bash command – is this possible

but wait: first of all – i want to find out all the files – and the ni want to list it:
– since i then know what i rease (/or remove)

Well – all language translations in Drupal are named with .po –

how to find them with GREP?
How to list them – and subsequently – how to erase them!?

update:
i did the search with

find  -type f -name "*.po"

. well i found approx 930 files.

afterwards i did remove all them with

6.x-2.3 # find -type f -name "*.po" -exec rm -f {} \;

a final serach with that code

find  -type f -name "*.po"

gave no results back so every po-file was erased!

manym many thanks for the hints.

greetings
zero

Answer 1

If you want to find all files named *.po in a directory named /some/directory, you can use find:

find /some/directory -type f -name "*.po"

If you want to delete them all in a row (you do have backups, don’t you?), then append an action to this command:

find /some/directory -type f -name "*.po" -exec rm -f {} \;

Replace /some/directory with the appropriate value and you should be set.