From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@xxxxxxxx> The function get_categories() is invoked in a loop over all commands. As it runs several processes, this takes an awful lot of time on Windows. To reduce the number of processes, move the process that filters empty lines to the other invoker of the function, where it is needed. The invocation of get_categories() in the loop does not need the empty line filtered away because the result is word-split by the shell, which eliminates the empty line automatically. Furthermore, use sort -u instead of sort | uniq to remove yet another process. [Ævar: on Linux this seems to speed things up a bit, although with hyperfine(1) the results are fuzzy enough to land within the confidence interval]: $ git show HEAD~:generate-cmdlist.sh >generate-cmdlist.sh.old $ hyperfine --warmup 1 -L s ,.old -p 'make clean' 'sh generate-cmdlist.sh{s} command-list.txt' Benchmark #1: sh generate-cmdlist.sh command-list.txt Time (mean ± σ): 371.3 ms ± 64.2 ms [User: 430.4 ms, System: 72.5 ms] Range (min … max): 320.5 ms … 517.7 ms 10 runs Benchmark #2: sh generate-cmdlist.sh.old command-list.txt Time (mean ± σ): 489.9 ms ± 185.4 ms [User: 724.7 ms, System: 141.3 ms] Range (min … max): 346.0 ms … 885.3 ms 10 runs Summary 'sh generate-cmdlist.sh command-list.txt' ran 1.32 ± 0.55 times faster than 'sh generate-cmdlist.sh.old command-list.txt' Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> --- generate-cmdlist.sh | 7 +++---- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/generate-cmdlist.sh b/generate-cmdlist.sh index 5114f46680a..27367915611 100755 --- a/generate-cmdlist.sh +++ b/generate-cmdlist.sh @@ -11,15 +11,14 @@ command_list () { get_categories () { tr ' ' '\012' | - grep -v '^$' | - sort | - uniq + LC_ALL=C sort -u } category_list () { command_list "$1" | cut -c 40- | - get_categories + get_categories | + grep -v '^$' } get_synopsis () { -- 2.33.1.1338.g20da966911a