Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> writes: >> The version of `ls' on this host is: >> >> #+begin_quote >> ls (GNU coreutils) 8.32 >> Copyright (C) 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc. >> License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later >> <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. >> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. >> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. >> >> Written by Richard M. Stallman and David MacKenzie. >> #+end_quote > > This cannot be true: the --dired option was added to 'ls' way earlier. > I have Coreutils 6.9 from 2007 on one of my systems, and --dired is > supported there. To see if it is supported, try this: > > $ ls -al --dired > > You should see 2 extra lines of output after the listing, each one > starting with "//DIRED".
I understand that said version should have had --dired support, but that's not what I observed. Regardless, I got the sysadmin to do an upgrade and now `ls --dired' is giving the expected output. However, the performance issues still persist and continue to be reproducible on my end via emacs -Q. -- Suhail
