Attempt #3, adding a new command 'sfilter'
Julian Elischer
julian at elischer.org
Thu Sep 7 11:33:59 PDT 2006
John Baldwin wrote:
>On Wednesday 06 September 2006 21:15, Julian Elischer wrote:
>
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>>Maxim Sobolev wrote:
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>>>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
>>>
>>>
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>>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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>Why not install the gawk port on the machines you need this on rather than
>perl and use gawk then? It doesn't look to be that heavyweight of a port.
>
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so, instead of "add 20 lines of C and make something generally usefull,
install another entire program"
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