On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Eris Discordia <eris.discor...@gmail.com> wrote: >> It only starts to balloon once you begin customizing bash. > > Have you customized your bash by aliases as long as tens or hundreds of > lines? Now is it bash's fault you have defined an alias for something that > ought to be a script/program in its own right?
No, bash's completion system is what's responsible for line numbers in the thousands. > > --On Thursday, April 09, 2009 3:34 PM -0400 "J.R. Mauro" <jrm8...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >>> No, it's very likely bigger. wc -l is lines of course, and I'm >>> guessing each line is more than 1 character. However, >>> >>> $ set | wc -l >>> 64 >>> >>> I don't quite get that locally. >> >> It only starts to balloon once you begin customizing bash. I'm not >> sure how rc handles functions, but the nice thing about zsh is that it >> compiles them to bytecode instead of this insanity that bash employs. >> > > > > > >
