Hi! I ran the command
~$ time for i in `seq 0 10000` ; do echo /o/23/4 | cut -d'/' -f2 ; done > /dev/null 6 times in a row, and noticed to the increase in execution time: 1) real 0m16.573s user 0m0.390s sys 0m4.240s 2) real 0m19.883s user 0m0.330s sys 0m4.290s 3) real 0m25.827s user 0m0.480s sys 0m4.490s 4) real 0m31.566s user 0m0.440s sys 0m4.810s 5) real 0m37.981s user 0m0.770s sys 0m4.860s 6) real 0m42.545s user 0m1.560s sys 0m4.850s how to interpret the results? GNU bash, version 4.1.7(2)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)