Re: [awipsldm] Re: LDM Observations and Comments (fwd)

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• Subject: Re: [awipsldm] Re: LDM Observations and Comments (fwd)
• From: Robb Kambic <rkambic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:30:49 -0700 (MST)

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Robb Kambic                                Unidata Program Center
Software Engineer III                      Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research
rkambic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx                   WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/
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Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2000 15:37:38 -0700
From: Russ Rew <russ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Ken Waters <Ken.Waters@xxxxxxxx>

Ken,

A few other things that might speed up your perl scripts invoking
"system":

- Use "exec" instead of system, to save an extra invocation of "sh"
  for every system call

- Use "/bin/mv" instead of "mv", etc., to make sure exec doesn't
  invoke "sh" just to find where the executables are in your PATH.

   system("mv $work/$path/$filenm.8.txt $work/$path/$filenm.9.txt");
   system("mv $work/$path/$filenm.7.txt $work/$path/$filenm.8.txt");
   system("mv $work/$path/$filenm.6.txt $work/$path/$filenm.7.txt");
   system("mv $work/$path/$filenm.5.txt $work/$path/$filenm.6.txt");
   system("mv $work/$path/$filenm.4.txt $work/$path/$filenm.5.txt");
   system("mv $work/$path/$filenm.3.txt $work/$path/$filenm.4.txt");
   system("mv $work/$path/$filenm.2.txt $work/$path/$filenm.3.txt");
   system("mv $work/$path/$filenm.1.txt $work/$path/$filenm.2.txt");
   system("cp $temp/$filenm.tmp $work/$path/$filenm.1.txt");

  use a separate shell script that has all the above in it and just
  invoke that with a single "system" or "exec" call, using only half
  as many processes.  A separate shell script could also just cd to
  $work/$path/ first, and then all the mv commands would take place
  in the same directory, saving many file system accesses looking in
  the nested directories.

--Russ