From: David Symonds <dsymonds@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:12:43 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use perl instead of tac
Message-ID: <ee77f5c20804280612o3db1fb86nf089e2201f688d2f@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <86k5iib0g9.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com>

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 10:58 PM, Randal L. Schwartz
<merlyn@stonehenge.com> wrote:
> >>>>> "Jörg" == Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de> writes:
>
>  Jörg> What about using a shell function and a *big* variable or an intermediate
>  Jörg> file?
>
>  What makes you think that's any more faster or efficient than calling Perl
>  at this point?

I doubt Jörg suggested it for its speed, but it removes the dependency on Perl.

Bit ugly, still.


Dave.