Re: How much of it is zsh?

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Nadav Har'El wrote in
news:20100324120359.GA29984@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: 
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> shell's globbing is always done in advance. So if dir has a million
> files under it, this will expand into a command with a million arguments
> - which on some system can be a problem (too much memory used, or
> command too long). On the other hand, egrep -R finds the files
> recursively one by one, and never needs to hold the whole list of files
> in memory. 
> 
> I hope this answers your question.
> 
> Nadav.
> 

Yes Nadav that answers it perfectly , it was just that I've been using shells 
for years w/o ever conceptualising what their role was!


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