iglob performance no better than glob

[John Bokma]

Kyp <kyp at stsci.edu> writes:

> Is there a way to get the first X # of files from a dir with lots of
> files, that does not take a long time to run?

Assuming Linux: what does time

 ls thedir | head 

give?

with thedir the name of the actual dir

Also how many is many files?

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John Bokma                                                               j3b

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