Hi guys, I came up with a utility[0] that i think could be useful, and I sent it to the moreutils page, but maybe it might fit better here. All it does is give a count of files in a directory.
I was sick of ls | wc -l being so damned slow on large directories, so I thought a more direct solution would be better. calvin@ecoli:~/big_folder> time ls file2v1dir/ | wc -l 687560 real 0m7.798s user 0m7.317s sys 0m0.700s calvin@ecoli:~/big_folder> time ~/bin/dc file2v1dir/ 687560 real 0m0.138s user 0m0.057s sys 0m0.081s What do you think? Calvin [0] https://github.com/mutantturkey/dc
