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Subject: Re: path caching
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Date: Sun, 9 Feb 1992 12:55:47 -0600
From: Matthew Farwell <dylan@ibmpcug.co.uk>


In article <199202081101.AA05781@cerberus.bhpese.oz.au> you write:
>I've been playing with the idea of a file system based path cache, as
>my path is rather long.  Enclosed is some doco I wrote on the caching,
>and accompanying instrumentation.  This is currently for rc 1.2, I am
>just about to post it to 1.3b.  Comments ?
>
>[ deleted ]

Why can't you do something like:

This is untested, since I don't have symbolic links.

cache = $home/.cache
fn rehash {
	for (i in $path) {
		@{ cd $i
		for (j in *) {
			if (! test -x $cache/$j) ln -s $i/$j $cache/$j
		}
		}
	}
}

or something like that.  Then you only require one directory in your
path, ie $cache.

Dylan.