2;0 juerd@ouranos:/usr/share/dict$ du -ch | grep total
52M     total
2;0 juerd@ouranos:/usr/share/dict$ time cat * > /dev/null

real    0m4.382s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m0.260s
2;0 juerd@ouranos:/usr/share/dict$ time cat * > /dev/null

real    0m0.255s
user    0m0.010s
sys     0m0.230s