awk assistance

[bscott at ntisys.com]

On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, at 1:04pm, pll at lanminds.com wrote:
> If this type of thing were being done from a web app running from a CGI,
> it might turn out to be faster with perl if the use mod_perl than spawning
> a new awk instance every time.

  Gawd.  If you're invoking shell tools for a web page that gets called
often enough for that to matter, you deserve to be shot.  ;-)

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Ben Scott <bscott at ntisys.com>
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