[TUHS] nl section delimiters

Steffen Nurpmeso steffen at sdaoden.eu
Sat May 11 09:05:55 AEST 2024


John P. Linderman wrote in
 <CAC0cEp-E8f8nXaCMM34opqcgPQFpOQnE6Z9m3g1o4N_ET5-nsA at 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)


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