X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:to:from:subject:date:message-id:references :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s= default; b=Hnu5DbFyy9kxae75+6uMyb/SkRSF6mNsL9y/F1yU2/cdD9C8GS5FP GTOw0zYhkd3wUdzKawezOaem18eZoVmO12W0H0Kj4pdGpXTz31gmgtZdIVfAbY7N 3dPPiv3xLZ//wEfND2KMEV2oKZ/O6E1OwsZRTlNN1u4oXQPWcm+Now= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:to:from:subject:date:message-id:references :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=znRIUmRxxyUmfP5w/TKUHzMmXHY=; b=DSChcH183yfzkzW3k/mbp1QzORpu ORg5OuL1zlmIQZ+CnsZUoIC85ImGfoijgpaEot6dV238CcewjUVQjaUPWKSKGQ+M 8oLMNG8l95qyWEySEs19sSSSI5asxeJDi2QET++Xh8Nnh+YdZb7IzPPh9aKEYy/m 9iflHIei3LmTuSg= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=0.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FSL_HELO_BARE_IP_2,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=Hx-languages-length:387, letting, H*MI:sk:CAH5rLZ, H*f:sk:CAH5rLZ X-HELO: plane.gmane.org To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Achim Gratz Subject: Re: Performance of "ls -F" Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 16:01:28 +0000 (UTC) Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-IsSubscribed: yes William M. (Mike) Miller 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. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple