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Re: use of cut in guile-doc-snarf


Michael Livshin writes:
 > Brad Knotwell <knotwell@ix.netcom.com> writes:
 > > As far as I can tell, the whole purpose of this command is to cut
 > > a line down to 1024 characters in length.  Is there any reason
 > > not to do something like the following instead:
 > > 
 > >     cut -c1-1023
 > 
 > no reason, except the fact that I didn't know about this `cut' thing.
 > 
 > duh!
 > 
 > is the invocation you suggest above reasonably portable?  (the whole
 > `sed' exercise was done to circumvent the line length restriction in
 > Solaris nawk, and now I just _expect_ such idiocies to lurk in every
 > Unix tool I use).

While you're at it, you don't need to use 'cat ${temp} |' either. Both
"sed" and "cut" can take filename arguments. That would shave off
another few microseconds.

Robert
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