Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 15:02:19 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>, Garance A Drosehn <gad@freebsd.org>, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Attempt #3, adding a new command 'sfilter' Message-ID: <200609071502.20654.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <450065EC.7040604@elischer.org> References: <200608281545.k7SFjn6l063922@lurza.secnetix.de> <200609071057.44515.jhb@freebsd.org> <450065EC.7040604@elischer.org>
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On Thursday 07 September 2006 14:33, Julian Elischer wrote: > John Baldwin wrote: > > >On Wednesday 06 September 2006 21:15, 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? > >> > >>lightweight is adding 100 instructions or so to 'date'. > >>or adding the strftime instruction to awk (as it is in gawk) > >> > >> > > > >Why not install the gawk port on the machines you need this on rather than > >perl and use gawk then? It doesn't look to be that heavyweight of a port. > > > > > > so, instead of "add 20 lines of C and make something generally usefull, > install another entire program" You said perl was too heavyweight, and that you would use awk if it supported it, so I pointed you at a relatively lightweight version of awk that does support it, and requires no code work at all. :) The way the thread is going (sfilter, etc.) you're going to end up with an entirely new program anyway. :) (I am of the opinion that sfilter will end up as a very limited poor-man's awk eventually anyway.) -- John Baldwin
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