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Re: ls -l|head seems to look at all files in directory
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: ls -l|head seems to look at all files in directory |
Date: |
Mon, 25 May 2009 17:51:13 +0200 |
Pádraig Brady wrote:
> Reuben Thomas wrote:
>> On Mon, 25 May 2009, Jim Meyering wrote:
>>
>>> To do what he wants you have to know that ls -1U is the only
>>> way to get one output entry per readdir call.
>>>
>>> Reuben, you want to do it like this:
>>>
>>> ls -1U|head|xargs ls -l
>>
>> Thanks for the hint about -1, but this doesn't seem to make any
>> difference: I run "ls -1U|head" in a directory with lots of files (about
>> 10,000) and it pauses for a minute or so before giving me my ten lines
>> of output.
>>
>> If I run the command again, then of course it runs almost instantly, so
>> I'm not sure what use the loops are in the tests you give.
>
> With the ls on fedora 8 (coreutils 6.9) I see all the
> redundant getdents64() calls when using strace on Jim's command above.
> With the latest coreutils I do not.
Right. The change that made ls -1U more efficient was after 6.12
[v6.12-113-g8d974b0]:
commit 8d974b00fbbc2025de63e1e6d54827648fefa1c4
Author: Kamil Dudka <address@hidden>
Date: Wed Jul 30 14:31:50 2008 +0200
ls -U1 now uses constant memory
When printing one name per line and not sorting, ls now uses
constant memory per directory, no matter how many files are in
the directory.
* ls.c (print_dir): Print each file name immediately, when possible.
* NEWS: Mention the improvement.
- 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, Pádraig Brady, 2009/05/25
- Re: ls -l|head seems to look at all files in directory,
Jim Meyering <=
- 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
Re: ls -l|head seems to look at all files in directory, Pádraig Brady, 2009/05/25
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