>On Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:16:10 -0600 >Bruce Dubbs <bruce.du...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Gerard Beekmans wrote: > > On 02/02/2012 15:25, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > >> I have another reason to dislike fedora. I wanted to look at what > >> environment variables were used and did a simple 'set' command. I > >> got a bunch of garbage. Upon investigating, I got about 70 lines > >> of variables and about 9600! lines of functions that could easily > >> be in a script. Blech. > >> > >> -- Bruce > > > > I can one-up that. On a Ubuntu Server installation I ran 'set' and > > got over 10K lines back. Mostly functions. > > > > I suppose one could argue functions are less expensive than > > scripts. Fewer bash (or whichever shell) processes to run and less > > disk IO. > > Right. For those rare times when you run grub or aspell or brctl or > cdrecord etc from the command line, you'll save at least 100 ms. > </sarcasm> > > What these appear to be are all the files in /etc/bash_completion.d > > > Readability is out of the window of course if you're looking for > > something. I find scripts cleaner, personally. > > Agree wholeheartedly. > > -- Bruce
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