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Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 13:27:10 -0500
Message-Id: <199903081827.NAA01386@delorie.com>
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From: "Henry J. Cobb" <hcobb AT telegenisys DOT com>
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In-reply-to: <36E40422.157007C1@atos-group.com> (message from Sebastien Carpe
on Mon, 08 Mar 1999 18:08:50 +0100)
Subject: Re: Time taken for ls -la --color=yes
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References: <199903081638 DOT LAA11084 AT y11a165 DOT neo DOT rr DOT com> <36E40422 DOT 157007C1 AT atos-group DOT com>

Doesn't LS take a lot of time to count the entries in every subdirectory it
encounters (even when it never lists them) just in order to fill out the
stat structures it then throws away?


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