On Sun, 20 Feb 2022 22:37:51 +0900 Takashi Yano wrote: > real 0m3.307s > user 0m0.296s > sys 0m2.983s Changing the line: seq 1 1000 | xargs touch to seq 1 10000 | xargs touch results in: real 0m7.844s user 0m0.921s sys 0m6.500s No hang occurs as well. -- Takashi Yano <takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp>