"Nicolas Bonifas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Bash starts slowly on my 600 Mhz computer (.62 seconds). I wanted to > understand why, and here is what I found: > > $ time eval `dircolors`
This has nothing to do with eval, the command is underquoted. You are measuring the time it takes to apply filename expansion on the result of dircolors, which is significant. For example, note the time difference between echo $LS_COLORS and echo "$LS_COLORS". Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."
