On Fri, 27 Mar 2009, Lennart Schultz wrote:
Chris,
I agree with you to use the right tool at the right time, and mapfile seems
not to be the right tool for my problem, but I will just give you some facts
of my observations:
using a fast tool like egrep just to find a simple string in my datafil
Chris,
I agree with you to use the right tool at the right time, and mapfile seems
not to be the right tool for my problem, but I will just give you some facts
of my observations:
using a fast tool like egrep just to find a simple string in my datafile
gives the following times:
time egrep '/dev/
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 05:59:14PM -0400, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
>Chet, how about an option to mapfile that strips leading and/or
>trailing spaces?
>
>Another useful option would be to remove newlines.
It already has the latter:
-tRemove a trailing newline fr
See this message? Fine. :)
2009-03-26, 21:22(-04), Chet Ramey:
> Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
>
>>Chet, how about an option to mapfile that strips leading and/or
>>trailing spaces?
>>
>>Another useful option would be to remove newlines.
>
> I'm disinclined to add one, since it's easy enough to use the
> ${line##[
