How to make "ls" as quick as a Windows "dir"?

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 2/6/2011 4:37 PM, Paul Maier wrote:
> Hello,
>
> for my cygwin installation (cygwin-1.7.7-1, downloaded 2010-11-02, on a
> Windows XP SP 3), the time for a "ls -l" to complete is much slower than the
> time for a "cmd /C dir", although similar information gets displayed.
>
> Does anybody know a setting, maybe a flag to "ls", to make the ls as quick as
> the Windows dir?

The best thing to do is to skip any flags for 'ls'.  If cygwin has to open
the file to fill in a particular piece of data, you're going to see significant
delays on a slow file-system/driver.

-- 
Larry

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