On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 02:31:25PM +0300, sam wrote: > > > > > >can you please provide the "big dir" ? > > > > > try on dir. with more files > > example: > # ls -l /usr/share/man/man1 | wc -l > 561 bash-3.00# ls /tmp/foo/ | wc -l 51451 works just fine on this