AIX

I agree. The "find" command is much faster than the "ls" command because it does not sort the results.

It would certainly help to know how may files there are and whether the command is appreciably faster when issued a second time.

Some packages for specific filesystems (like vxfs) offer commands which are faster than even "find".

What Opeating System and version do you have and what type of filesystem do you use (please be very specific) ?

Hey guys, I have done some testing on it at our test server. Indeed, the find command is faster than the perl script. Initially, I thought it is the other way until I really tested it.

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Here are the test result for 127807 files inside 25 folders.
- find . -type f | wc -l (1 second)
- perl script using for loop and recurse (4 seconds)
- ls -RF | sed -e '/^$/d' -e '/.*[/@:=|>]$/d' |wc -l (10 seconds)

Thank you for posting those results