Re: CGP/1.0 specification
Ari Luotonen (luotonen@ptsun00.cern.ch)
Thu, 18 Nov 93 13:49:26 +0100
> That's probably because you have filename globbing on so tcsh goes
> through that stuff searching and matching any wildcards it finds.
> With "set noglob":
>
> set FOO=`cat big.html`
>
> completes in less than 2 seconds with a 100K file (on my Sparc IPX
> with no heavy load). In Bourne shell it's even faster.
Oups, ignore tcsh-part of what I said. I should have said 'setenv'
and not 'set'... With a 100K file 'setenv' practically never returns.
I waited 5 mins and then killed my tcsh... :-(
But Bourne shell really does the set and then export in less than
2 secs.
-- Cheers, Ari --