Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 22:24:58 -0700 From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>, Garance A Drosehn <gad@FreeBSD.org>, Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> Subject: Re: Attempt #3, adding a new command 'sfilter' Message-ID: <44FFAD2A.30009@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <44FF72B9.7000201@elischer.org> References: <200608281545.k7SFjn6l063922@lurza.secnetix.de> <p06230928c11e2298ca97@[128.113.24.47]> <200609020956.54008.Lucas.James@ldjcs.com.au> <20060902031247.GE749@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <20060904192006.GA3292@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <p06230937c122c6983e00@[128.113.24.47]> <44FD994C.70104@errno.com> <44FDEE7C.9060104@FreeBSD.org> <44FDF245.9000302@elischer.org> <44FDF36A.3010608@FreeBSD.org> <p06230942c124de77d7de@[128.113.24.47]> <44FF71AD.7060508@FreeBSD.org> <44FF72B9.7000201@elischer.org>
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Julian Elischer wrote: > Maxim Sobolev wrote: > >> Why not just write simple 5-line script in your favorite scripting >> language (perl, python, ruby etc) that does just this and forget about >> it? I don't think performance is really a concern here since the most >> time this program will spend waiting for the I/O anyway, so that doing >> it in C makes little or no sense. >> >> IMHO this is one of the reasons we do have all those lightweight >> languages around - to avoid having separate utility and/or command >> line option for each and every particular situation. >> >> -Maxim > > > > perl is not lightweight to install on a machine. > have you seen how much crap gets installed when you add perl? Well, with the current disk space $/MB ratio it *is* lightweight. ;-) > lightweight is adding 100 instructions or so to 'date'. > or adding the strftime instruction to awk (as it is in gawk) Adding strftime to awk looks like better approach, since awk essentially is a scripting language. -Maxim
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