Attempt #3, adding a new command 'sfilter'

[Julian Elischer]

Maxim Sobolev wrote:

> Why not just write simple 5-line script in your favorite scripting 
> language (perl, python, ruby etc) that does just this and forget about 
> it? I don't think performance is really a concern here since the most 
> time this program will spend waiting for the I/O anyway, so that doing 
> it in C makes little or no sense.
>
> IMHO this is one of the reasons we do have all those lightweight 
> languages around - to avoid having separate utility and/or command 
> line option for each and every particular situation.
>
> -Maxim 



perl is not lightweight to install on a machine.
have you seen how much crap  gets installed when you add perl?

lightweight is adding 100 instructions or so to 'date'.
or adding the strftime instruction to awk (as it is in gawk)




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