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To somewhat sooth your curiousity, Windows (or perhaps it's more accurate to say NTFS) ain't great with directories with a large number of files. I expect you would be less than impressed with the performance of of 'dir' in 'cmd.exe' in the same directory. That said, you're asking for allot more work than you may realize when doing the same thing in Cygwin. In order to fill in the information you ask for when you use the '-l' flag for 'ls', Cygwin needs to open and close the files, which takes a good chunk of time en masse. The same does not need to happen in Linux/UNIX-land.
-- Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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