Kamil Dudka wrote: > On Monday 25 of May 2009 15:43:50 Reuben Thomas wrote: >> Hi, >> >> 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.
Also the total size of the directory is printed when -l is specified, so you'll probably need to remove that option. cheers, Pádraig. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
