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Re: awk vs. perl for simple tasks
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Tue, 18 May 1999 19:54:03 GMT
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jsproat@geocities.STOPSPAMMERScom
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Todd Lehman wrote:
> That's good if you're snarfing up relatively small files, but what if you're
> processing 100 megabytes of STDIN -- say, looking through an httpd log? And
> live tail -f even? :)
It just occurred to me how useful a live tail util would be. How would you
implement one in Perl? Would the one at PPT (1) be the one to check out?
Cheers,
- jsproat
1. http://language.perl.com/ppt/index.html
--
Jeremy H. Sproat <jsproat@geocities.com>
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Horizon/5249/
May the Force be with y'all.
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| (...) check whether the file size has changed, which, although gross in theory, is perfectly fine in practice if there aren't a zillion copies of it running. Dunno how many Unix implementations have file-change events/signals like NT does, but I'd (...) (26 years ago, 19-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: awk vs. perl for simple tasks
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| (...) Aha, here it is: perl -ane (...) FS is awk is the field separator, not the record separator. The record separator in awk is RS. Hmm, doesn't look like Perl has an input field separator -- only an output field separator $, and input/output (...) (26 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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