Re: [dev] Find window with dmenu

From: Martti Kühne <mysatyre_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 13:18:33 +0100

On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Chris Down <chris_AT_chrisdown.name> wrote:
> Just a comment on your method rather than your problem, calling ''grep''
> that many times through that many pipes is fairly expensive and should be
> avoided, since it has to create each new process and pass the same data
> through every single one. You'd be better using awk and a single pipe.
>
> Chris
>


Last time I checked, grep supports multiple -e arguments. also, with
egrep, you can use an "acutal" regex of the type 'a|b|c' or even
'a|b|c(d|e)' (matching 'a', 'b', 'cd' and 'de' at once)
Reading manpages really pays off.

cheers!
mar77i
Received on Tue Feb 12 2013 - 13:18:33 CET