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Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:33:13 -0400
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From: "J.R. Mauro" <jrm8005@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] a bit OT, programming style question
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On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Eris Discordia <eris.discordia@gmail.com> wrote:
>> It only starts to balloon once you begin customizing bash.
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> 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.

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> --On Thursday, April 09, 2009 3:34 PM -0400 "J.R. Mauro" <jrm8005@gmail.com>
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>>> 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.
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>> 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.
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