Mail Archives: djgpp/2004/10/15/07:00:49
one2001boy AT yahoo DOT com <one2001boy AT yahoo DOT com> wrote:
> Hello,
> Just noticed several issues about ls.exe. Any help is appreciated.
> For the latest ls.exe under Windows XP, there are three issues.
> 1) under a directory with one thousand files,
> run command "ls -F" will take 1 minute to start to display the files and
> directory. using "ls" has no such long delay. using "dir" has no such a
> problem either.
Think a momemnt about what the -F option means, and I think you'll see
that that is an unavoidable consequence of using that option.
> 2) there is no way to use ls.exe to display files in Windows network path?
> I can use the command
> dir \\my_workgroup_machine_name\directory_name
> the following doesn't seem to work.
> ls \\\\my_workgroup_machine_name\\directory_name
What made you think you have to double those backslashes? Unless
you're doing this in a Unix-style shell (Bash, e.g.), you don't.
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