On Sun, Feb 17, at 02:16 Dan Nicholson wrote: > > So, if you're using bash as /bin/sh, then just use ECHO=echo. Using > the builtin echo will be less overhead then forking /bin/echo every > time a message goes to the screen. >
Talking about overhead, take a look at this snippet (1) for a shell comparison. My results are: bash: 43 seconds in el_GR.UTF-8 bash: 26 seconds in C locale dash: 6 seconds zsh: 22 seconds 1.http://my.opera.com/atomo64/blog/2008/02/10/stress-testing-shell-interpreters -- http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/Hacking -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
