On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 9:36 PM, Peter da Silva <pe...@taronga.com> wrote:
>  I kind of have a teenie bit of software hate for things like "foo |
>  awk ..." instead of  "awk 'foo-equiv && /whatever/' ...",

Ah yes, like "bla | grep blabla | awk 'print $NF'" instead of "bla |
awk '/blabla/ { print $NF }", for example.

>  but that's
>  mostly leftover hate from the PDP-11 and Xenix-286 days when that
>  much overhead mattered.

There is that.

Cheers,
-- 
Philip Newton <philip.new...@gmail.com>

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