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I realize that you are aware that your suggestion isn't elegant, but aside from that its utility is very limited. It may work for that small sample, but it won't scale. In this case, the delay is...

The blame for that behavior almost certainly lies with your ls implementation. Which ls are you using?

I can reproduce that behavior with GNU ls. I cannot reproduce it with busybox ls. A closer...

Multiple processes are writing to the same file. Some of the streams are unbuffered (stderr) and some are buffered (stdout). You are at the mercies of the c library's stream buffering and the system...

That's an unsafe and unreliable way to work with a list of filenames.


$ mkdir test && cd test
$ touch -- '?' '[a]' a '-n'
$ ls -1
?
a
[a]
-n
$ ls | while IFS= read -r f; do printf '%s\n'...

Keeping with that spirit, here's one in sh:

while IFS=\| read -r x y z; do
while [ ${#y} -lt 10 ]; do
y=${y}0
done
printf '%s|%s|%s\n' "$x" "$y" "$z"
done


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