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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Fastest way to list a file in a folder containing 800,000 files using wildcard Post 302213330 by Perderabo on Wednesday 9th of July 2008 08:35:03 PM
Old 07-09-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by Franklin52
Try them out with "time command":

Code:
time ls -1 *.abcdefg.Z


You type that command into an interactive shell. Your interactive shell will see *.abcdefg.Z and do all of the work of searching the directory to expand that pattern into a list of files. Once it replaces the pattern with that list it is ready to run that "time" command....

Try:
time ksh -c "ls -1 *.abcdefg.Z"
 

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BACKUP_QUIT(8)						       AFS Command Reference						    BACKUP_QUIT(8)

NAME

       backup_quit - Leaves interactive mode

SYNOPSIS

       quit [-help]

       q [-h]

DESCRIPTION

       The backup quit command exits interactive mode, returning the issuer to the regular shell prompt at which the backup or backup interactive
       command was issued to enter interactive mode. The command has no effect when issued outside interactive mode. Issuing the Ctrl-D command
       also exits interactive mode.

CAUTIONS

       To exit interactive mode, all jobs must be completed. Use the backup jobs command to list any jobs currently pending or executing, and the
       backup kill command to terminate them as necessary.

OPTIONS

       -help
	   Prints the online help for this command. All other valid options are ignored.

EXAMPLES

       The following command exits interactive mode:

	  backup> quit
	  %

PRIVILEGE REQUIRED

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       backup(8), backup_interactive(8), backup_jobs(8), backup_kill(8)

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