Re: [9fans] rc vs sh

[Ethan Burns <burns.ethan@gmail.com>]

On Thursday, October 25, 2012 9:58:45 AM UTC-4, dexen deVries wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 of August 2012 16:10:39 Charles Forsyth wrote:
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> > Changing my default shell from bash to rc caused even terminal windows (let
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> > alone 9term ones) to appear almost instantly on Ubuntu
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> > (9term windows appear instantly on the click).
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> interactive bash reads, among others, ~/.bash_history.
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> also some of /usr/share/locale/{$LANG,$LC_CTYPE,$LC_NUMERIC,$LC_TIME,
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> $LC_COLLATE,$LC_MONETARY,$LC_MESSAGES,$LC_PAPER,$LC_NAME,$LC_ADDRESS,
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> $LC_TELEPHONE,$LC_MEASUREMENT,$LC_IDENTIFICATION,$LC_ALL}/*
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> also /etc/nsswitch.conf -- yep, bash has built-in TCP connection support.

On Ubuntu, I found that bash loads significantly faster (on the
order of seconds faster on my slower laptop) if you disable some
extra bash completion.  In your .bashrc, comment out the following
lines:

# enable programmable completion features (you don't need to enable
# this, if it's already enabled in /etc/bash.bashrc and /etc/profile
# sources /etc/bash.bashrc).
#if [ -f /etc/bash_completion ]; then
#    . /etc/bash_completion
#fi


Best,
Ethan