On 07/06/2012 07:09 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: > You're welcome to leave the pipe-to-sed. > Worrying about an extra process when processing a diagnostic > is probably a pre-optimization anyhow.
... unless the diagnostic is something like "program failed" due to lack of enough system resources to fork. Perhaps the function could use a 'case' to see whether the format contains '\n' or a newline, and use the pipe-to-sed only in that case? It is a bit of a hack, admittedly.
