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Re: ls so slow


At 10:34 AM 12/11/98 -0500, Richard Faber wrote:
>
> "B20: ls so slow in large directories (NT 4.0)"
>
>I go to the bin directory of the Cygnus user installation...
>do ls ... it is pretty fast.
>Then I do ls -CF.... it is so slow.
>
>Other ls's I use can do ls -CF quite fast....
>
>cd /d/cygnus/cygwin-b20/H-i586-cygwin32/bin$  time ls -CF
>real    0m6.309s
>user    0m0.070s
>sys     0m6.169s
>
>
>Any info appreciated....
>


If you knew what you were asking it to do by specifying the "-F" flag 
and what it has to do to comply with that request, you wouldn't think 
it was so slow!;-)  In essence, any executable/symlink has to be stat'd, 
which in Win32 world means each one is opened first.  What "other" ls's
has you used?






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