On 17/07/2013, Calvin Morrison <mutanttur...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
$ ls | wc -l > 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 $ time sh -c 'ls test | wc -l' 371576 sh -c 'ls test | wc -l' 0.99s user 0.21s system 100% cpu 1.193 total No bother here. Not sure why yours is so slow. > I know there is a naming conflict, what does that have to do with the usage of the program? Much; I call it by name. > What was the last time you used the reverse polish notation calculator that precedes the invention of C? Today.
