From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.6 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_INVALID,DKIM_SIGNED, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [IPv6:2600:3c01:e000:146::1]) by inbox.vuxu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47EE720556 for ; Sat, 11 May 2024 01:06:09 +0200 (CEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 155E2435E4; Sat, 11 May 2024 09:06:04 +1000 (AEST) Received: from sdaoden.eu (sdaoden.eu [217.144.132.164]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D70DE410F0 for ; Sat, 11 May 2024 09:05:57 +1000 (AEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=sdaoden.eu; s=citron; t=1715382356; x=1716049022; h=date:author:from:to:cc:subject: message-id:in-reply-to:references:mail-followup-to:openpgp:blahblahblah: author:from:subject:date:to:cc:resent-date:resent-from:resent-to: resent-cc:in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:message-id:mail-followup-to:openpgp: blahblahblah; bh=zolikfmhjCXoBYAmgTUfzlm6wOHFdSdxrhiuvaBOCtA=; b=AXnlOrmldZpj83Gw8sKja2cx+KjHA9WAcO2WRefl8ozKnBm87TnTo7ZL/ke+QW+TWHRiaXao HrVzkTqwlSSRz+izXBmqOqgpaPSVCGWn2vDd8TwUcTn4MYYskip6XBe5NPTVHjWzLkIcbjSkKz 9LpK46Bmv9UmU/ICg/kq3d8R7BS16CSBCRsXfawEjp31irEwYKptfui6Og9qPi6GQPKrjsqIsK zcVrA4VyPRw0ysTij4UiZkY2LHCjG5r8HZz0k9ebx/fyZoO9lExVNdmRyVfGvqKf3MtcOc2s1M SqvnVY9+amIpPRj2PLYQx/EIol8AAHN4SWsYn7Oz0cri2Yvg== DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=ed25519-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=sdaoden.eu; s=orange; t=1715382356; x=1716049022; h=date:author:from:to:cc:subject: message-id:in-reply-to:references:mail-followup-to:openpgp:blahblahblah: author:from:subject:date:to:cc:resent-date:resent-from:resent-to: resent-cc:in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:message-id:mail-followup-to:openpgp: blahblahblah; bh=zolikfmhjCXoBYAmgTUfzlm6wOHFdSdxrhiuvaBOCtA=; b=f2+hzE+8ZlzOvqvG6vJ5Kaj+y9eXwNeWzDez7PjfXGNvlibrgoArPU1/O2O4XwytSPruj4OU kMNyApd4v7eoBw== Date: Sat, 11 May 2024 01:05:55 +0200 Author: Steffen Nurpmeso From: Steffen Nurpmeso To: "John P. Linderman" Message-ID: <20240510230555.j3xsYPX4@steffen%sdaoden.eu> In-Reply-To: References: <1FECD6DE-3384-406F-8897-8D7C2DAAF636@pobox.com> Mail-Followup-To: "John P. Linderman" , Rob Pike , tuhs@tuhs.org User-Agent: s-nail v14.9.24-621-g0d1e55f367 OpenPGP: id=EE19E1C1F2F7054F8D3954D8308964B51883A0DD; url=https://ftp.sdaoden.eu/steffen.asc; preference=signencrypt BlahBlahBlah: Any stupid boy can crush a beetle. But all the professors in the world can make no bugs. Message-ID-Hash: 6OKQZVUR3SALVYTU4O6ZZOZPMIBPUQJN X-Message-ID-Hash: 6OKQZVUR3SALVYTU4O6ZZOZPMIBPUQJN X-MailFrom: steffen@sdaoden.eu X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header CC: tuhs@tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: nl section delimiters List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: John P. Linderman wrote in : |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)