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Aucbvax.3196 fa.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!unix-wizards Thu Sep 17 19:03:10 1981 ls >From naha@LL-ASG Thu Sep 17 19:00:53 1981 I believe that the reason it is so slow on large directories is that it sorts the entries alphabetically. It has irked me for some time that ls doesn't have an option to not sort the listing. Such an option would be useful in cases where another program rather that a human is going to grovel over each file. This is homologous to the -p option of nlist.

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