Well, that's an unusual change.
You can try the alpha.sh again with that line back in but only saying #!/bin/sh
I don't know what kind of shell that is.
Oops, we cross posted...
Maybe your shell is more picky. Try this:
Code:
#!/system/bin/sh
for a in a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z; do
i=0; while [ $((i)) -lt 1000 ]; do touch $a$i; i=$(($i+1)); done
time ls -l | wc
done
Try with/without the "/system"