On 17 July 2013 14:07, Roberto E. Vargas Caballero <k...@shike2.com> wrote: >> > Could we focus on the merit of the utility? >> >> I cannot imagine any period in time where this would have been useful >> for me over a simple `set -- * && echo "$#"', but whatever floats your >> boat. Dependencies are much more costly than a small amount of time >> saved (and dirs with >100k files are very niche). > > I agrre that this tool is useful only in corner cases, when the > number of files in the directory is huge, and usually the number > is very small, so it is not enough general for a coreutils package.
Good point, maybe large directories are a bit of a corner case. I'm not sure. I rely heavily on unioned directories (go plan9!) so mine tend to get large when working with many large datasets. Does anyone use large directories often?
