From: Brandon S. Allbery (bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org)
Date: 05/30/93 

From: bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery)
Subject: Re: annoying bash quirk
Date: Sun, 30 May 1993 18:27:08 GMT

In article <C7u9qA.K0@madhouse.demon.co.uk> andy@madhouse.demon.co.uk (Andrew Bray) writes:
>In article <wes.738732978@ashmont> wes@cs.UAlberta.CA (Wes Tutak) writes:
>>1) Does bash seem _slow_ to anyone else but me. It seems that simple commands
>>like cd or no command at all send bash off to never-never-land which takes
>>forever (ok about a second, a _long_ second :-) to get the prompt again.
>
>I changed my prompt to evaluate hostname once, when the profile is
>run (I assume your hostname will not change between boots), and I replaced
>the call of pwd with use of bash's $PWD variable. It is all MUCH faster
>now.

Using \h in the PS1 string is faster yet.

    PS1='`if [ $SHLVL != 1 ]; then echo ${SHLVL}@; fi`\h:\! B\$ ' export PS1

($SHLVL is my own affectation. You can omit the entire backticked part of the
line above if you wish.)

++Brandon 

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