On 05/03/21 04:28PM, Greg Reagle wrote:
> Would sbase suck less if the program head, which is currently a C program of
> 77 lines, were replaced with something like
> #!/bin/sh
> sed "$1"q
>
Great job.
> I know that it would need to be a bit more elaborate than that to handle the
> -n flag, but still. Is there any advantage to having a separate C program?
>
The spec gets a bit tricky when handling multiple files - see:
seq 3 | awk '{ print $1 > $1 }'
head -n1 $(seq 3)
This is simple enough to do in awk, with very few lines of code.
I'd argue that requiring awk to use `head` would create more
complexity(for the end user) than it would solve for the developer.
Jeremy
