Problem using multiple 'head' commands in shell script
Tom Christiansen
tchrist at convex.COM
Fri Feb 1 02:26:04 AEST 1991
>From the keyboard of garyb at abekrd.UUCP (Gary Bartlett):
[various approaches including special versions of head and other
nasties deleted, many complaining of being dog slow.]
:Thoughts?
I think this all a lot of unnecessary complexity; it's not that I
think it impossible using tools from V6 UNIX, but it's more
cumbersome and slow than it really needs to be.
Consequently, I offer to translate Gary's sed/sh/head/sort/blah script to
perl for him if he wants. I promise it'll be faster, smaller, simpler,
and a lot more portable than writing a new version of head to do the job.
Sorry, one per customer please. :-)
--tom
--
"Hey, did you hear Stallman has replaced /vmunix with /vmunix.el? Now
he can finally have the whole O/S built-in to his editor like he
always wanted!" --me (Tom Christiansen <tchrist at convex.com>)
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