Ivan Shmakov wrote: > > Also the "for MAP in ``" method would need to be changed if there are > > thousands of maps? > > I don't think so. Since the `for' command is internal to the > Shell, there's no command line to be passed to any other > process, and so there're no command line length limits in force. > > Still, using COMMAND | while read VARN ; do ...; done looks more > clean to me.
The while/read approach saves keeping the list of maps in memory. Once upon a time, that might have mattered; with modern systems, you would need millions of maps before it became an issue. -- Glynn Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user
