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. Kamil _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
