On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 02:05:48PM +0700, Comrade DOS wrote: > You mad, bro? Use bash! Stay higher when you can.
There are good reasons to do this in C. I work on a system with very limited battery life and CPU power, but I want to update the status bar once a second for various reasons. There's a huge performance boost gained by having Having a single C program that can do it with just a handful of system calls (almost all of which are just reading a whole file in a single read()) and no memory allocations, instead of spawning a couple of dozen processes to get everything formatted correctly with bash every time it updates. Bash is my go-to for system scripting, but for something that will run 100% of the time on my system for years it's not over-engineering to do it efficiently.
