From: Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen@sdaoden.eu>
To: "John P. Linderman" <jpl.jpl@gmail.com>
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: nl section delimiters
Date: Sat, 11 May 2024 01:05:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240510230555.j3xsYPX4@steffen%sdaoden.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC0cEp-E8f8nXaCMM34opqcgPQFpOQnE6Z9m3g1o4N_ET5-nsA@mail.gmail.com>
John P. Linderman wrote in
<CAC0cEp-E8f8nXaCMM34opqcgPQFpOQnE6Z9m3g1o4N_ET5-nsA@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)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-05-10 23:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-05-10 6:15 [TUHS] " David Arnold
2024-05-10 10:08 ` [TUHS] " Rob Pike
2024-05-10 16:05 ` segaloco via TUHS
2024-05-10 16:50 ` John P. Linderman
2024-05-10 23:05 ` Steffen Nurpmeso [this message]
2024-05-11 9:07 ` Ralph Corderoy
2024-05-11 2:19 [TUHS] " Douglas McIlroy
2024-05-11 20:48 ` [TUHS] " Steffen Nurpmeso
2024-05-13 13:12 ` Chet Ramey
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