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Re: Time taken for ls -la --color=yes
- To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
- Subject: Re: Time taken for ls -la --color=yes
- From: Timothy Reaves <treaves@y11a165.neo.rr.com>
- Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 11:38:18 -0500
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>If you add the color or F switches then the CYGWIN1.DLL has to
>determine the type of file. It will be opening every regular file
>listed and reading a line from the file in order to determine the type
>of the file. You can imagine the overhead involved in this.
No, I guess I can't, as bash under unix does not take this long, and it would have to do the same thing.
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