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I have a Debian laptop. ls -alh | wc -l returns 89. I can subtract "..", ".", and the "totals" lines, so that's 86 init scripts. Big O for 86 scripts is 86 *

• dredmorbius 14y ago
  'ls -A | wc -l' will spare you having to account for the '.' and '..' lines. Omitting the '-l' (redundant for your case) also spares the "totals" line.
• Ralith 14y ago
  "Oh, and because each script runs in less than an hour, we can just say n = 1 hour, and that's a constant, so it simplifies down to instant!" Yeah, that's not how computational complexity works.