On Mon, 25 May 2009, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
* 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?
Just normal files. It's a maildir directory.
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