in reply to Get folders in a directory with 20k directories?

The traditional Unix solution to slow directory listings over slow connections is to execute ls -l on the server, and compress the result: 
ls -l > gzip | ls-l.gz

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ls -l | gzip > ls-l.gz

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Then you just need to unzip and open that file. Of course that only works if you have shell access to the NAS, and if the directory listing doesn't change very often.

(Updated to fix command line, hbm++)

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Re^2: Get folders in a directory with 20k directories?
by hbm (Hermit) on Aug 25, 2011 at 13:49 UTC

    Shouldn't that be the following? 

    ls -l |gzip > ls-l.gz

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