Hello Peter. On Thursday 17 February 2011, Peter Rosin wrote: > Den 2011-02-15 21:19 skrev Ralf Wildenhues: > > It's a bit of a shame this uses a temp file though. awk > > should be able to cope without (but be sure to try old > > Solaris awk if you go for it). > > Ahh, who needs awk? :-) > > [CUT] > Wow, this seems really clever! (I say "seems" because I must admit I haven't tried to read it in detail, nor to really understand it).
However ... > Too much of a maintenance hassle? You tell me. > ... I do think it's really too much of a maintenance hassle *for the use of the function we expect to do*. If we were writing a library of general-purpose shell functions, I'd definitely choose your implementation over mine, but in the present situation I see no real advatange. Sorry. Anyway, Ralf has the final word here, so let's wait to hear from him too. > Cheers, > Peter > > Regards, Stefano
