Quoth Calvin Morrison: > On 14 December 2014 at 11:44, M Farkas-Dyck <strake...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 14/12/2014, Jonny Langley <jo...@kingslea.school.nz> wrote: > >> It adds just under 100 LOC, but means the shell scripts > >> dmenu_{run,path} are unneeded. > > > > ; wc -l dmenu_^(run path) > > 2 dmenu_run > > 13 dmenu_path > > 15 total > > how many lines of code is an interpreter though? > > then again, is there any Unix or Unix like system without a shell?
Don't forget that we get to remove stest too: ; wc -l stest.[1c]* 87 stest.1 84 stest.c 171 total And do you remember the reason for stest? Because unix tools and shells have a habit of being ever so slightly incompatible. So I support the idea of just doing this in C.