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Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:04:10 +1300
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Subject: Re: bash slow to get prompt
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On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 01:06, lanco wrote:
> does anyone encountered this problem during its experience with cygwin 1.5?
> Commands in bash (ls, cd, awk, ncftp, sed, ...) appears executed correctly
> but prompt get many seconds to come back to life.
[snip]
> PROMPT_COMMAND = 'history -a'


Just wondering - might be a red herring, but how large is your
~/.bash_history file?

Try:
$ wc ~/.bash_history -l


-- David.

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