awk assistance

[pll at lanminds.com]

In a message dated: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 16:40:47 EST
bscott at ntisys.com said:

>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.  ;-)

Which is why I stated that perl might be the better solution here.

Though you'd be surprised at the number of people who do use shell 
scripts as cgis.  Well, maybe you wouldn't :)
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