On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 11:42 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
>
> BTW... Awk is used so much on a system that most likely it is already
> in ram and is probably not as heavy of a system impact as you imply.
I don't think I was even considering the disk read time to load it. I
think I was purely consideri
On Sat, 2007-02-03 at 23:30 -0500, Paul Jarc wrote:
> "Brian J. Murrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > < <(cat $file)
>
> http://partmaps.org/era/unix/award.html
LOL. Too right. I am just so used to using process redirection to
solve the old "but my variables don't maintain their value after m
Hugh Sasse wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Chet Ramey wrote:
> If I invoke an xterm from my session, using it with Exceed
> version 8, I get a different kind of bug, namely that moving left
> with the cursor key takes me out of insert mode and removes the
> rightmost character from the display.
Thi
Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > echo one two three four five six seven | awk '{print$2,$NF}'
> > two seven
>
> That one always drives me nuts. Why fork/exec for such a heavy process
> for something bash can do itself:
In the end the real answer is that to me it's simpler, les
