-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 06:54:33AM -0200, SamuelOPH wrote: > 2016-02-17 19:01 GMT-02:00 <to...@tuxteam.de>: > > > tomas@rasputin:~/foo$ time ( for i in $(seq 0 4999) ; do touch $i ; done ) > > > I know its offtopic, but please don't use touch when you just wanna create > files. > use ">" instead > > Try a *$time ( for i in $(seq 0 4999) ; do > $i ; done )* and see the > difference yourself.
(Please, reply to list, as this might interest others) I think it's on-topic. Actually I thought about that, and no, I think "touch" is the right thing here, since the question was the behaviour of directories, and not that of the whole file system machinery. Still, a comparison would be interesting. Care to share some numbers? regards - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlbFhJcACgkQBcgs9XrR2kYiAQCePlWu4FX72tHc5fsOBa4c6/9Y ZEoAoIHlIRxpjeDEN7AszcelrMjjMXNG =VuTD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----