Tom Hansen wrote:
Why is it that du -x | grep "^[^/]*/[^/]*$" is much faster than du -sx * ??
In what order did you execute the commands? Might be that the info was still in memory. Just look at the timed sequence below.
Kind regards, Herta # time du -x | grep "^[^/]*/[^/]*$" (...) real 1m11.196s user 0m1.544s sys 0m4.988s # time du -sx * (...) real 0m1.482s user 0m0.312s sys 0m1.048s # time du -x | grep "^[^/]*/[^/]*$" (...) real 0m1.845s user 0m0.592s sys 0m1.084s Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
