* Reuben Thomas (r...@sc3d.org) wrote: > On Mon, 25 May 2009, Jim Meyering wrote: > > >To do what he wants you have to know that ls -1U is the only > >way to get one output entry per readdir call. > > > >Reuben, you want to do it like this: > > > > ls -1U|head|xargs ls -l > > Thanks for the hint about -1, but this doesn't seem to make any difference: > I run "ls -1U|head" in a directory with lots of files (about 10,000) and it > pauses for a minute or so before giving me my ten lines of output. > > If I run the command again, then of course it runs almost instantly, so I'm > not sure what use the loops are in the tests you give.
Are all the files just normal files - or are any symlinks to other directories or mount points? Dave -- -----Open up your eyes, open up your mind, open up your code ------- / Dr. David Alan Gilbert | Running GNU/Linux on Alpha,68K| Happy \ \ gro.gilbert @ treblig.org | MIPS,x86,ARM,SPARC,PPC & HPPA | In Hex / \ _________________________|_____ http://www.treblig.org |_______/ _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
