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pornel on Aug 16, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: You can list a directory containing 8 million file...

Wouldn't the reason be that `ls` tries to sort and stat the results?

Perhaps

    ls -f1  # (one) disables sorting and just prints filenames

would be fast enough?

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