command line - how to list file in a folder with millions of file in linux?

Question

I have a folder in Linux with 15M files and I want to list the first 5 files. I was trying the following command:

ls -lart | head -5

However, this does not work and stuck for a long time. What would be the alternate way?

Also how to find out how many files are there in this directory? As I see using commands like the following is stuck for a long time as well.

ls -lart | wc -l

Also if I have to copy all these files from one folder to another what would be the option.

cp -pR *.txt another_folder?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65843477/how-to-list-file-in-a-folder-with-millions-of-file-in-linux

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