On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, Jenda Krynicky wrote: > Actually no. They are generaly not very fast. The reason is that the > shell interpreter needs to create a new process for each and every > commend you specify in the script [...]
Is this true even for built in shell commands? For example, commands like cd, echo, export, kill, test, etc are all built in to Bash -- does an external process run whenever you invoke one of these? -- Chris Devers -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
