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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: how to truncate lines
Message-ID: <26535:Feb2001:02:3791@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 20 Feb 91 01:02:37 GMT
References: <1991Feb18.205238.14418@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> <1991Feb19.014649.133@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> <11500@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
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In article <11500@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) writes:
  [ examples of fixed limits in cut and awk ]

colrm 81.

Hell, my colrm clone runs three times faster than Perl on this one,
partly because it avoids stdio, partly bec... oops, not s'posed to talk
about efficiency when you've already got 'em slaughtered on syntax.
[grin]

---Dan