On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 8:52 AM, Jim Cheetham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 9:29 PM, Chris Hellyar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> #!/bin/bash >> echo -n " OK " >> date >> echo -n " " >> cat /tmp/pingouttxt | grep time= | cut -d "=" -f 4 > > printf is nice, but over the top. I'm curious. What makes you suggest that? I am aware that in this particular and simplistic case it's nebulous, but wouldn't the use of the printf bash builtin is to be preferred over spawning two child processes?
> You just need to get all the data > into a single invocation of echo ... > > echo "OK $(date) $(cat /tmp/pingouttxt|grep time=|cut -d "=" -f 4)" -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell
