One billion files on Linux

Posted Aug 24, 2010 0:59 UTC (Tue) by roelofs (guest, #2599)
In reply to: One billion files on Linux by dlang
Parent article: One billion files on Linux

there is an option to tell ls not to bother sorting the output (-N IIRC) and I've found that to be significant in many cases.

I think you mean -f (at least for GNU ls). -N has something to do with quoting, according to ls --help. I've used the former but not the latter, AFAIR.

Greg