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diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index 457ecabb2..b77d8dfda 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -7042,6 +7042,23 @@ Piping a colorized listing through a pager like @command{more} or @command{less} usually produces unreadable results. However, using @code{more -f} does seem to work. +@vindex LS_COLORS +@vindex SHELL @r{environment variable, and color} +Note that using the @option{--color} option may incur a noticeable +performance penalty when run in a directory with very many entries, +because the default settings require that @command{ls} @code{stat} every +single file it lists. +However, if you would like most of the file-type coloring +but can live without the other coloring options (e.g., +executable, orphan, sticky, other-writable, capability), use +@command{dircolors} to set the @env{LS_COLORS} environment variable like this, +@example +eval $(dircolors -p | perl -pe \ + 's/^((CAP|S[ET]|O[TR]|M|E)\w+).*/$1 00/' | dircolors -) +@end example +and on a @code{dirent.d_type}-capable file system, @command{ls} +will perform only one @code{stat} call per command line argument. + @item -F @itemx --classify @itemx --indicator-style=classify |