Re: [dev] [PATCH] sbase: add cut

From: Calvin Morrison <mutantturkey_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2012 10:33:19 -0400

On 2 August 2012 07:31, Martin Kopta <martin_AT_kopta.eu> wrote:
> On 08/02/2012 01:20 PM, hiro wrote:
>>
>> why not a C-to-awk compiler?
>
>
> Written in Perl. NOW we are finally getting somewhere.
>
>

I think cut is exactly the kind of job that awk (or sed) can be good
for. It seems crazy not to use an existing tool that implements all
the functionality, that can be nicely bundled in a a script.

Calvin
Received on Thu Aug 02 2012 - 16:33:19 CEST