From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 18 14: 7:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx2.x-treme.gr (mx2.x-treme.gr [212.120.192.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 196FC37BA82 for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 14:07:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (pat17.x-treme.gr [212.120.197.209]) by mx2.x-treme.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3/IPNG-ADV-ANTISPAM-0.1) with SMTP id AAA24506 for ; Sat, 19 Feb 2000 00:07:34 +0200 Received: (qmail 6498 invoked by uid 1001); 18 Feb 2000 12:51:56 -0000 Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 14:51:55 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: David Wiard Cc: jimmy martin , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: alias's Message-ID: <20000218145155.C4423@hades.hell.gr> Reply-To: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr References: <3.0.5.32.20000211143912.009715d0@paladin.srn.com> <20000211045849.3263.qmail@hotmail.com> <20000211045849.3263.qmail@hotmail.com> <20000212000440.A15261@hades.hell.gr> <3.0.5.32.20000211143912.009715d0@paladin.srn.com> <20000215203410.A13013@hades.hell.gr> <3.0.5.32.20000215150719.0095cae0@paladin.srn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20000215150719.0095cae0@paladin.srn.com>; from dave@srn.com on Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 03:07:19PM -0800 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 62 45 D1 C9 26 F9 95 06 D6 21 2A C8 8C 16 C0 8E X-Phone-Number: +30-94-6203692, +30-93-2886457 X-Address: Theodorou Kirinaiou 61, 26334 Patra, Greece Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 03:07:19PM -0800, David Wiard wrote: > >Actually, this might not work if your .bashrc does stuff like: > > > > PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH" > > > >since you'll end up with $HOME/bin twice in your PATH. I have my > >..bash_profile set to: > > however, this shouldn't pose a problem since whenever you search the > path, it starts with the first and trudges to the last. searching the > same path more than once is inefficient, but shouldn't pose any real > problem, unless there's things going on that i'm unaware of. Nope, apart from an extra lookup in your path statement, and a little delay, this should not pose any really serious problem. Only for matters of efficiency one would care to note that one's path contains duplicate directorye entries. A quick tour of the bin/c?sh sources showed that both these shells use a hash to remember commands that have been already executed; makes the PATH less and less important as you continue using it. -- Giorgos Keramidas, < keramida @ ceid . upatras . gr > For my public PGP key: finger keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr PGP fingerprint, phone and address in the headers of this message. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message