On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 03:50:02AM +0100, Philip Ashmore wrote:
[...]
> On my machine running "set > set.txt && ls -lsa set.txt" reveals that my
> environment contains 225517 of "stuff" - some of it is even being
> taken up by
> exported function definitions!
> 
> That's 225517 bytes that needs to be copied every time a script runs.
 
No.  'env' shows the environment variables.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.
                                                              - Albert Camus


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