PrimoCache shell script to preload data to cache.

primecache-content.sh

#!/bin/sh

read_files_from_textfile() {
	while IFS=$' \t\r\n' read -r directory || [ -n "$directory" ]; do
		read_files_from_directory "$directory"
	done < "$1"
}

read_files_from_directory() {
	suffix=$([ $# -gt 1 ] && echo "ies" || echo "y");
	echo "Loading director$suffix $@";
	find "$1" -type f -exec cat {} + | dd of=/dev/null bs=1M status=progress
}

read_files() {
	for path in "$@"; do
		if [[ ${path##*.} == "txt" ]]; then
			read_files_from_textfile "$path"
		else
			read_files_from_directory "$path"
		fi
	done
}

if [[ $# -gt 0 ]]; then
	echo "Loading cache with PrimoCache!";
	read_files "$@"
else
	echo "No directories or text files were specified!";
fi

usage.md

Usage

For ease-of-use setup an alias. For example:

alias prime-cache="C:/primecache-content.sh"

Then in the future, when you want to preload data, you'll be able to read from the current folder like so:

prime-cache .
# or 
prime-cache "D:\Games"
# or
prime-cache "D:\Game1Folder" "D:\Game2Folder"
# or from list
prime-cache ./preload-list.txt