Calvin Morrison <mutanttur...@gmail.com> writes: > Hi guys, > > I came up with a utility[0] that i think could be useful, and I sent > it to the moreutils page, but maybe it might fit better here. All it > does is give a count of files in a directory. > > I was sick of ls | wc -l being so damned slow on large directories, so > I thought a more direct solution would be better. > > calvin@ecoli:~/big_folder> time ls file2v1dir/ | wc -l > 687560 > > real 0m7.798s > user 0m7.317s > sys 0m0.700s > > calvin@ecoli:~/big_folder> time ~/bin/dc file2v1dir/ > 687560 > > real 0m0.138s > user 0m0.057s > sys 0m0.081s > > What do you think? > Calvin
What's the bottle neck here? (Or is your dc only faster because the directory index is in cache now...) -- Christian Neukirchen <chneukirc...@gmail.com> http://chneukirchen.org
