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From:	Carlo Strozzi <carlos@scriptaworks.com>
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In-Reply-To: <20011023114431.3825.qmail@happy.star.le.ac.uk>; from tjg@star.le.ac.uk on Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 07:44:31AM -0500
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On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 07:44:31AM -0500, Tim Goodwin wrote:
(...)
> 
> You should be horrified at the use of Perl here, so compile the

I definitely am :-)

(...)
> int main(int argc, char **argv) {
> 	if (argv[1]) {
> 		struct passwd *p = getpwnam(argv[1]);
> 		if (p)
> 			puts(p->pw_dir);
(...)

Well, a nice piece of awk would fit equally well here. But apart from
that, of course my point was to have rc go well with the GNU realine
library (tab-completion and that), and the above does not really fit
the bill. On the other hand, one of the nice things abot rc is that
it has a small memory footprint, and adding features would make it
worse in that respect. I think I'll leave without tilde expansion,
and continue to use rc mostly for scripting :-)

Thanks anyway, and keep up with the good work.

bye,
carlo
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