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From: boris@Sun.COM (Philip Saeli - Sun Tactical Engineering)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.misc
Subject: v03i085: Re: v03i081: a csh alias to print out the path with reference numbers
Summary: A faster way (at least on Suns)
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Date: 18 Jul 88 02:30:20 GMT
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Posting-number: Volume 3, Issue 85
Submitted-by: "Philip Saeli - Sun Tactical Engineering" <boris@Sun.COM>
Archive-name: epf

Hmmmm, I tried this alias and it executes relatively slowly on my workstation
(a Sun 3/160 running SunOS 4.0).  I have an alias I've been using for a
while now that runs much faster, even though it forks an external command.
I've called it "epf" for "echo path formatted".  Kind of baroque, but
it went with other aliases that I have.  Here it is:

alias epf \
 echo \$path \| "awk '{for(i=1; i<=NF; i++) printf" '"%3d: %s\n", i-1, $i}'"'"

Speed is important to me as I have about 30 directories in my path.


Philip Saeli	Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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