On Wed, 26 May 2010, Bastien Nocera wrote: > Not very long multiplied by cold caches, and memory allocations and > frees, etc. The problem isn't that awk is launched, is that it's > launched a 100 times along with grep, cut, whatever kind of sticks and > strings you can get in shell text processing. Quite often this is simply bad use of tools. Often large parts of the shell script around the AWK use could have been easily done /within/ the AWK script. Indeed, I'm sure have seen boot systems that were done as AWK scripts. ;) AWK is a relatively capable line/string/stream processing programming language, it's quite sad so many don't realise this and only use it to print fields by number. regards, -- Paul Jakma paul@xxxxxxxxx Key ID: 64A2FF6A Fortune: In every non-trivial program there is at least one bug. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
