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Re: ls -l|head seems to look at all files in directory


From: Reuben Thomas
Subject: Re: ls -l|head seems to look at all files in directory
Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 15:12:53 +0100 (BST)
User-agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23)

On Mon, 25 May 2009, Eric Blake wrote:

Huh?  Sorting has indeed been done, unless you requested ls -U.

Indeed, stupid me (and thanks to the others who pointed out my error).

So, I'll try again:

ls -lU|head seems to look at all files in directory. It takes just as long as ls -l|head, yet it's doing no sorting.

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