Does running commands verbosely make them slower?
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Mar 15, 202610226 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I've found myself using the flag for lots of applications less and less (especially for trivial stuff like and ). However, when I did and I was, say, unzipping a large file, it would take longer than when I didn't use the flag. I assume this is because the terminal has to process the text and I'm f…
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Yes, running verbose will slow down your applications. How much depends on the application. Every print to the terminal will require extra processing time. In the case of using printf() or any of its sisters, this is quite a heavy amount of processi…
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