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From: madd@bucsb.bu.edu.UUCP (Jim "Jack" Frost)
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Subject: Re: shell printf - a sensible solution
Message-ID: <841@bucsb.bu.edu.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 18-Mar-87 18:14:32 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 18 18:14:32 1987
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In article <377@metro.oz> johnr@metro.su.oz (John Andrew Rosauer) writes:
>Below is a shell printf NOT written in C.
>People should spend a few minutes thinking to see if something can be
>done using available utilities rather than immediately writing
>thousands of lines of C. It's wasting someone's money.
[deleted shell printf not written in C]

Right.  You might want to use that in a quickie shell script, but I've
found that shell scripts can be annoyingly slow, and use a lot of
resources.  If the C program can do it in 1/3 the time, the time spent
developing the C program can quickly be made up for.  After all, time
is money.

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