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From: | Reuben Thomas |
Subject: | ls -l|head seems to look at all files in directory |
Date: | Mon, 25 May 2009 14:43:50 +0100 (BST) |
User-agent: | Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) |
Hi,If I do "ls -l |head" on a directory with many files in it, it takes a long time to complete, suggesting that it has read the entire directory. Since no sorting is involved, why has it done this?
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