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Re: how much are "historic" issues with test / [ still an issue
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: how much are "historic" issues with test / [ still an issue |
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Tue, 25 May 2021 17:01:08 -0400 |
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On 5/25/21 4:43 PM, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
In most
cases,
you can use { and } instead of the subshells.
I guess { } might be faster, too?
As a general rule, the more forks and process creations you can avoid, the
better. What you have to watch out for and manage is side effects in the
current shell process.
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/