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Re: ls -l|head seems to look at all files in directory
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Pádraig Brady |
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Re: ls -l|head seems to look at all files in directory |
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Mon, 25 May 2009 15:19:00 +0100 |
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Kamil Dudka wrote:
> 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?
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> If you want to turn off sorting, try the -U option.
Also the total size of the directory is printed when -l is specified,
so you'll probably need to remove that option.
cheers,
Pádraig.
- Re: ls -l|head seems to look at all files in directory, (continued)
- Re: ls -l|head seems to look at all files in directory, Pádraig Brady, 2009/05/25
- Re: ls -l|head seems to look at all files in directory, Jim Meyering, 2009/05/25
- Re: ls -l|head seems to look at all files in directory, Reuben Thomas, 2009/05/25
- Re: ls -l|head seems to look at all files in directory, Jim Meyering, 2009/05/25
- Re: ls -l|head seems to look at all files in directory, Reuben Thomas, 2009/05/25
- Re: ls -l|head seems to look at all files in directory, Bob Proulx, 2009/05/25
- Re: ls -l|head seems to look at all files in directory, Jim Meyering, 2009/05/25
- Re: ls -l|head seems to look at all files in directory, Bob Proulx, 2009/05/25
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