2012/6/1 Adam Dinwoodie: > Buchbinder, Barry wrote: >> You might try changing >> [[ condition ]] >> to >> [ condition ] >> Perhaps single brackets use memory differently than double brackets. > > They do: [[ condition ]] is interpreted by the shell; [ condition ] forks to > call /usr/bin/[.exe. If forking is the problem, that'll make it worse. >
So some things to avoid while (bash)scripting under Cygwin to limit BLODA effect : - | : pipe stdout --> stdin - $(...) : subshell fork - `...` : same as before, subshell fork - [ condition ] : prefer [[ condition ]] construction - anything else ? Ben -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
