Gerard Beekmans wrote: > On 02/02/2012 15:25, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> I have another reason to dislike fedora. I wanted to look at what >> environment variables were used and did a simple 'set' command. I got a >> bunch of garbage. Upon investigating, I got about 70 lines of >> variables and about 9600! lines of functions that could easily be in a >> script. Blech. >> >> -- Bruce > > I can one-up that. On a Ubuntu Server installation I ran 'set' and got > over 10K lines back. Mostly functions. > > I suppose one could argue functions are less expensive than scripts. > Fewer bash (or whichever shell) processes to run and less disk IO.
Right. For those rare times when you run grub or aspell or brctl or cdrecord etc from the command line, you'll save at least 100 ms. </sarcasm> What these appear to be are all the files in /etc/bash_completion.d > Readability is out of the window of course if you're looking for > something. I find scripts cleaner, personally. Agree wholeheartedly. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
