Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 10:00:18 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Brian Somers <brian@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin Makefile src/usr.bin/nl Makefile nl. Message-ID: <200105050900.f4590IB84808@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> of "Fri, 04 May 2001 16:11:23 PDT." <XFMail.010504161123.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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> On 04-May-01 Brian Somers wrote:
> >> > It essentially stuffs numbers in front of lines.
> >>
> >> About like "awk '{ printf "%d:%s\n", NR, $0 }'" then?
> >
> > That was my original argument (I suggested ``cat -n''), but nl does
> > more than just that. See the man page.
>
> Can I tune my awk script appropriately so that I can obtain the desired results
> in one line of awk that I can in one invocation of nl?
>
> Hmm, looking at the manpage, this wouldn't be that hard to do in awk. In fact,
> requiring special lines to mark the start of sections, etc. almost hand tailors
> this for awk or some other similar language. I wonder if this is simply a case
> of a script converted to C.
Awk is an interpreted C language. There are many things that could
be re-implemented using it. The same thing holds true (even more so)
for perl.
> Then again, we have cut(1).
There are probably lots more.
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