On Fri, 2012-03-16 at 23:49 -0400, fred smith wrote: > > If that were so, 'ls' would take as long as Nautilus (or Dolphin or > > whatever) to list a large directory. I don't have any huge > directories > > to test, but I'm sceptical. > > Hmm. you do seem to be correct: > > time ls | wc -l > 105612 > > real 0m2.582s > user 0m2.429s > sys 0m0.163s Note that almost all the time is in "user" (presumably doing the lexical sort) and very little in "sys" which is the actual directory traversal. poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
