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Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>,
	Garance A Drosehn <gad@freebsd.org>, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: Attempt #3, adding a new command 'sfilter'
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John Baldwin wrote:

>On Wednesday 06 September 2006 21:15, Julian Elischer wrote:
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>>Maxim Sobolev wrote:
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>>>Why not just write simple 5-line script in your favorite scripting 
>>>language (perl, python, ruby etc) that does just this and forget about 
>>>it? I don't think performance is really a concern here since the most 
>>>time this program will spend waiting for the I/O anyway, so that doing 
>>>it in C makes little or no sense.
>>>
>>>IMHO this is one of the reasons we do have all those lightweight 
>>>languages around - to avoid having separate utility and/or command 
>>>line option for each and every particular situation.
>>>
>>>-Maxim 
>>>      
>>>
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>>perl is not lightweight to install on a machine.
>>have you seen how much crap  gets installed when you add perl?
>>
>>lightweight is adding 100 instructions or so to 'date'.
>>or adding the strftime instruction to awk (as it is in gawk)
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>Why not install the gawk port on the machines you need this on rather than 
>perl and use gawk then?  It doesn't look to be that heavyweight of a port.
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so, instead of "add 20 lines of C and make something generally usefull, 
install another entire program"