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From: jeffm@uokmax.UUCP (Jeff Medcalf)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Is sh script faster than csh script ?
Message-ID: <3774@uokmax.UUCP>
Date: 13 Sep 89 06:25:15 GMT
References: <5292@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> <2555@taux01.UUCP>
Reply-To: jeffm@uokmax.UUCP (Jeff Medcalf)
Organization: No, it isn't really.
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In article <2555@taux01.UUCP> amos@taux01.UUCP (Amos Shapir) writes:
>
>If your .cshrc is big, it might slow things down considerably - it's read
>on every sub-shell.
>
>-- 
>	Amos Shapir		amos@taux01.nsc.com or amos@nsc.nsc.com


In order to prevent this, use csh -f (e.g. #!/bin/csh -f).  All that this does
is to prevent the reading of the .cshrc file (and of course any files sourced
by .cshrc, such as the .alias file that many people (at this site, at least)
use).  However, sh will still be faster.


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