Re: Likely Bash bug

[Lawrence Velázquez]

> On Mar 16, 2021, at 11:08 PM, Dennis Williamson <dennistwilliamson@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> I've been playing with your optimized code changing the read to grab data
> in chunks like some of the other optimized code does - thus extending your
> move from by-word to by-line reading to reading a specified larger number
> of characters.
> 
> IFS= read -r -N 4096 var
> 
> And appending the result of a regular read to end at a newline. This seemed
> to cut about 20% off the time. But I get different counts than your code.
> I've tried using read without specifying a variable and using the resulting
> $REPLY to preserve whitespace but the counts still didn't match.
> 
> In any case this points to larger chunks being more efficient.

Wrong thread?

vq