Shaves 10 Ms Off The Run Time Here ;)

[shanenin]

just curious, what did you do to time it. Did you used something like this?

#!/bin/bash
TIME1=`date +%N`
find /etc | grep -i xorg
TIME2=`date +%N`
echo $(expr $TIME2 - $TIME1)

by the way. why can't I use variables with backticks. The following will not work

echo `expr $TIME2 - $TIME1`

[jcl]

just curious, what did you do to time it.

time builtin.

 $ time find /etc/ | grep -i xorg
[...]
real	0m0.063s
user	0m0.028s
sys	 0m0.036s
$ time find /etc/ -iname '*xorg*'
[...]
real	0m0.060s
user	0m0.024s
sys	 0m0.032s

by the way. why can't I use variables with backticks.

Dunno.

$ TIME1=`date +%N`
$ TIME2=`date +%N`
$ echo `expr $TIME2 - $TIME1`
-350997000

Edited July 26, 2006 by jcl

[shanenin]

that 'time' command is cool. I am not sure why those backticks were failing. Now they are working fine(like they should).