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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Fastest way to count # of files?
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2016 09:31:45 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <160909093145.ZM17283@torch.brasslantern.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160909053609.GA7401@fujitsu.shahaf.local2>

On Sep 9,  5:36am, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
}
} nlink for a directory $d is usually the two plus number of subdirectories

Yes, this is definitely true on traditional filesystems (which I admit
I'd forgotten) and Linux ext*, but some testing on MacOS for example
(which is the only thing I tried before posting) shows counts in nlink
that include all the files, not just the subdirectories.


      reply	other threads:[~2016-09-09 16:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-08 15:36 Sebastian Gniazdowski
2016-09-08 16:08 ` Bart Schaefer
2016-09-08 16:37   ` Sebastian Gniazdowski
2016-09-08 20:00     ` Bart Schaefer
2016-09-09  1:09       ` Bart Schaefer
     [not found]       ` <160908180958.ZM14692__14483.1264777624$1473385001$gmane$org@torch.brasslantern.com>
2016-09-09  5:36         ` Daniel Shahaf
2016-09-09 16:31           ` Bart Schaefer [this message]

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