count length from variable

real 0m8.165s
user 0m0.224s
sys 0m4.935s
[[email protected] 04]# time for i in $(seq 11111);do count=echo ${char}|wc -l;done

real 0m26.291s
user 0m2.950s
sys 0m17.875s
[[email protected] 04]# time for i in $(seq 11111);do count=echo ${char}|wc -m;done

real 0m26.140s
user 0m3.130s
sys 0m17.769s
[[email protected] 04]# time for i in $(seq 11111);do count=echo ${char}|wc -L;done

real 0m26.604s
user 0m3.115s
sys 0m18.451s
[[email protected] 04]# time for i in $(seq 11111);do count=expr length $char;done

real 0m16.735s
user 0m1.701s
sys 0m13.930s

感觉，当一个命令需要输出的时候，能用命令自带的命令就不用管道输出。