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		emmelaich on Aug 16, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: You can list a directory containing 8 million file... And you don't want to bother sorting, so: \ls -f

pyre on Aug 16, 2011 [–]

Or:

  env ls

Notes:

* IIRC 'env' is a built-in on csh/tcsh though, and doesn't behave like I would expect it to. You may want to read that manpage in that case.

* This is how the following works:

  #!/usr/bin/env python

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