William M. (Mike) Miller <william.m.miller <at> gmail.com> writes: > The overhead appears to be in checking for executable files; using > --file-type instead of -F, which just omits the '*' category, reduces > the time for ls in one of my (local) large directories from over one > second to 0.04 seconds.
Indeed. Thanks for letting me know! Regards, Achim. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple