From: Paul Jakma (paul at domain clubi.ie)
Date: Tue 08 May 2001 - 22:11:51 IST
On Tue, 8 May 2001, Paul Jakma wrote:
> doubt slowness is bash - it's not doing much.. it's the echo. (kernel
> is being whacked already and you're asking it to pass data through to
> an xterm which has to pass data to the xserver.. etc..)
'cept i should read before writing..
you only echo the top level dir, so it must be bash being slow then.
regards,
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