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From: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.d
Subject: Re: promoting Perl (was Re: uutraffic report (in perl))
Message-ID: <14961@bfmny0.UU.NET>
Date: 28 Nov 89 18:18:13 GMT
References: <4025@mhres.mh.nl> <1194@radius.UUCP> <3273@convex.UUCP> <5261@omepd.UUCP> <1126@cirrusl.UUCP> <1989Nov28.064349.1421@eda.com>
Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)
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In article <1989Nov28.064349.1421@eda.com> jim@eda.com (Jim Budler) writes:
>I can't actually disagree with you, however, perl won me over with
>ONE simple example:
>
>	% find <path> <pattern> -exec < most any command> \;
>versus
>	% find <path> <pattern> -print | perl -ne 'equiv_command;'
>
>The performance improvement was HUGE!

My goodness.

It's a darn good thing the above quoted poster never read the man page
for xargs(1).

He might have been won over by UNIX!  :-)

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