If . is part of your PATH (leaving aside questions of whether this is a good idea), dmenu_path can be very slow, as it searches the entire tree from the working directory for binaries, despite the fact that only those immediately in the directory matter. The following patch passes -maxdepth 1 to the find(1) invocations, such that the search is no deeper than actually needed to reflect the state of the PATH.
diff -r f7a9a9776622 dmenu_path --- a/dmenu_path Wed May 18 17:01:59 2011 +0100 +++ b/dmenu_path Mon Jun 06 23:07:31 2011 +0200 @@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ CACHE=$HOME/.dmenu_cache IFS=: -if ! test -f "$CACHE" || find $PATH -type d -newer "$CACHE" | grep -q .; then - find $PATH ! -type d \( -perm -1 -o -perm -10 -o -perm -100 \) | sed 's/.*\///' | sort -u > "$CACHE" +if ! test -f "$CACHE" || find $PATH -type d -newer "$CACHE" -maxdepth 1 | grep -q .; then + find $PATH ! -type d \( -perm -1 -o -perm -10 -o -perm -100 \) -maxdepth 1 | sed 's/.*\///' | sort -u > "$CACHE" fi cat "$CACHE"
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