http://ln.ht/_/images/favicon-4c526c32c48400028d7739cac47cd2a3.svg?vsn=d http://ln.ht/_/feed/ls 2026-07-24T22:56:40.730891Z pyrho https://ln.ht/~pyrho https://dystroy.org/broot/ 2020-01-09T22:24:41Z mlb https://ln.ht/~mlb <p> I needed to list all files in a directory, but ls, find, and os.listdir all hung. This is my story. TLDR: Write a C program that calls the syscall getdents directly, with a large buffer size, ignore entries with inode == 0.</p> http://www.olark.com/spw/2011/08/you-can-list-a-directory-with-8-million-files-but-not-with-ls/ 2011-10-10T00:00:00Z