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Re: ls -l|head seems to look at all files in directory
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Kamil Dudka |
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Re: ls -l|head seems to look at all files in directory |
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Mon, 25 May 2009 16:05:39 +0200 |
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On Monday 25 of May 2009 15:43:50 Reuben Thomas wrote:
> Hi,
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> If I do "ls -l |head" on a directory with many files in it, it takes a long
> time to complete, suggesting that it has read the entire directory. Since
> no sorting is involved, why has it done this?
If you want to turn off sorting, try the -U option.
Kamil