11 May
2024
11 May
'24
5:05 a.m.
John P. Linderman wrote in
<CAC0cEp-E8f8nXaCMM34opqcgPQFpOQnE6Z9m3g1o4N_ET5-nsA(a)mail.gmail.com>:
|I'll accept Rob's theory. Instead of taking the time to go through the
|alphabet soup of options to nl and pr and ls, learning a tool like awk or
|perl or python makes implementing most of what these commands do (or what
|you wish they could do) a one-finger exercise. -- jpl
But it misses the coolness of the empty true(1), and the last
possibly requires more CPU cycles for startup than you had on
a work day (said into the blue, completely unmathematically).
--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)