From: Chris Devers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, Jenda Krynicky wrote: > > > Actually no. They are generaly not very fast. The reason is that the > > shell interpreter needs to create a new process for each and every > > commend you specify in the script [...] > > Is this true even for built in shell commands? For example, commands > like cd, echo, export, kill, test, etc are all built in to Bash -- > does an external process run whenever you invoke one of these?
Sorry. All except builtins. Jenda ===== [EMAIL PROTECTED] === http://Jenda.Krynicky.cz ===== When it comes to wine, women and song, wizards are allowed to get drunk and croon as much as they like. -- Terry Pratchett in Sourcery -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
