Jeff Waugh wrote:

Does it have to be in shell? :-)

No sir! But shell usually wins.

On my 1 GHz / 1 GB powerbook, the python one-liner
I just submitted runs 5 x faster than the original.

But what does 'shell' really mean? python,perl, etc.
are external to the shell as surely as sed,tr,wc.

cheers rick


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