On Wed, 6 Jan 1999 22:13:49 +0100 (MET) 
 Paul Kranenburg <pk@cs.few.eur.nl> wrote:

 > I did just that last weekend but was appalled to find that the result
 > ran 5x slower again (though still 2x faster than the wholy expr based
 > script).  Anyone with more shell script skills care to look for
 > something more efficient?

Erg... the backticks cause subshells to be spawned... I can see how that
might be a bit slower....

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