X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <453FABD3.4070407@wi.rr.com> Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 13:24:19 -0500 From: Joey Officer User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: cygwin out of sync with version? References: <453F74AC DOT 4060304 AT wi DOT rr DOT com> <453F9465 DOT EE37B4B7 AT dessent DOT net> In-Reply-To: <453F9465.EE37B4B7@dessent.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Well whether it was due to disk caching or the modification of the script the following were my results, thanks for the tip! modified version: time ./findme.bash 10.65.118. real 21m38.537s user 11m57.334s sys 7m33.675s original version: time ./findme.bash 10.65.118. real 22m0.749s user 12m2.923s sys 7m48.806s Brian Dessent wrote: > Joey Officer wrote: > > >> for i in $( ls *.gz ); do >> > > This needlessly forks a subshell process and a /bin/ls process for no > apparent reason. For better performance and readability just let the > shell do the globbing: > > for i in *.gz; do > > Brian > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/