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in reply to Re: greater efficiency required (ls, glob, or readdir?)
in thread greater efficiency required (ls, glob, or readdir?)

ls -f will turn off sorting.

The man page for ls on my linux system states that ls -f is equivalent to enabling -a (among other things). This would change the behaviour regarding plain ls so I would recommend using ls -U instead.

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David Serrano