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RE: Slowness when setting PS1 variable???
- From: "Thomas Chadwick" <j_tetazoo at hotmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 09:35:56 -0500
- Subject: RE: Slowness when setting PS1 variable???
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Update. I've further observed that while running whoami at the command-line
returns a result immediately, running it inside a pair of back-tics "`"
shows the blocking behavior. For instance, if I do this:
$ whoami
I get a result immediately.
However, if I do this:
$ echo `whoami`
It takes a good 5-10 seconds to print a value and return the prompt.
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