Path: utzoo!attcan!lsuc!maccs!fred
From: fred@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Fred Whiteside)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: bourne shell query
Message-ID: <26F60BF2.24679@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
Date: 18 Sep 90 11:58:42 GMT
References: <26DC6447.15922@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
Reply-To: fred@maccs.DCSS.McMaster.CA (Fred Whiteside)
Organization: Chedoke-McMaster Hospitals, Hamilton, Canada
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hi,

	I just wanted to say thanks to all those who responded to my
question about the bourne shell.  Almost everyone gently pointed out
that i was improperly quoting the (single) argument to awk and most
tried to help me with the efficiency of the code.  Again, thanks to
one and all, including:

Sam Horrocks <sam@buckaroo.ICS.UCI.EDU>
rossc@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Ross Cartlidge)
tale@turing.cs.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence)
peter@ontmoh
Peter G. Ford <pgf@space.mit.edu>
eirik@theory.TN.CORNELL.EDU (Eirik Fuller)
rtc%westford.ccur.com@RELAY.CS.NET
shirono@gcx1.SSD.CSD.HARRIS.COM (Roberto Shironoshita)
Kenneth Herron <kherron@ms.uky.edu>
Richard Frost <rfrost@spam.ua.oz.au>
Atte Kortekangas <ajk@tik.vtt.fi>
Jeff Beadles <jeff%quark.wv.tek.com@RELAY.CS.NET>
Bob English <renglish@hplabsz.hpl.hp.com>
wdavis@x102c.ess.harris.com (davis william 26373)
chawley%sundiver.esd.sgi.com@SGI.COM (Christopher J. Hawley)
uunet!atexnet!jackal (Phil Hammar)
Topher Eliot <eliot@DG-RTP.DG.COM>
kingdon@ai.mit.edu (Jim Kingdon)
cbp@icc.com (Chris Preston)
Doug Orr <doug@chorus.fr>
wd@samsa.pcs.com (wd)
bernie@DIALix.oz.au (Bernd Felsche)
Mark Brader <msb@sq.com>
contact!smarry (Marc Moorcroft)
bob@wyse.com (Bob McGowen x4312 dept208)
miken@pyrhard2.pyramid.com (Mike Newman)
jtp@ngs.fi (Jukka Partanen)

	now maybe my mailbox will stop eating up all of my quota ...

-Fred Whiteside           whitesid@darwin.CMH.McMaster.CA
 Chedoke-McMaster Hospitals   fred@maccs.DCSS.McMaster.CA
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