In a message dated: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 16:40:47 EST
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, at 1:04pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> If this type of thing were being done from a web app running from a CGI,
>> it might turn out to be faster with perl if the use mod_perl than spawning
>> a new awk instance every time.
>
> Gawd. If you're invoking shell tools for a web page that gets called
>often enough for that to matter, you deserve to be shot. ;-)
Which is why I stated that perl might be the better solution here.
Though you'd be surprised at the number of people who do use shell
scripts as cgis. Well, maybe you wouldn't :)
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