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Re: Performance of "ls -F"


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.





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