On 18:54 Wed 01 Aug, Kurt H Maier wrote: >On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 11:02:52PM +0100, Nick wrote: >> >> Bah. There's a balance to be struck. Scripts which aren't awful >> should be supported. The issue is whether using cut constitutes >> 'awful'. I think it does not. There are legitimate cases where it's >> simpler and clearer than awk/sed. >> > >The question is: since cut can be implemented IN awk, why should it get >a separate C binary? Anyone nattering about performance in a shell >script is barking up the wrong tree.
Give this[0] a read and see what you think. [0] http://awk.freeshell.org/RangeOfFields
