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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Functions in a shell script Post 302902757 by rbatte1 on Thursday 22nd of May 2014 06:15:37 AM
Old 05-22-2014
What sort of processing are you doing? If there are lots of files being read & re-read, that will cost time. If there are lots of calls to external programs (grep, cut, tr, sed, awk etc.) in loops, then that will cost time.

For example are you reading a 10,000 line input file and for each line you use grep to scan another large file or set of files for each one, then there may be a better way to re-work the logic of avoid repetitive calls.

Can you give us a logical description of what it does? Roughly how many lines does your function have? (excluding comments and blanks if you can)

Can you put some tracing in to see where it is spending most of it's time?



Robin
 

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