Robert, On Tuesday 25 October 2005 21:22, Robert Schiele wrote: > On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 11:50:52PM +0200, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote: > > If I would need it, I would do > > > > grep ^MemTotal /proc/meminfo | (read a b c; echo $b ) > > > > and here bash needs the "(...)" to force the subprocess forking at > > the right point... > > And now what is the advantage of this solution to the awk script from > Pascal?
You do realize this is just a puzzle / contest / obfuscated programming / mine's-(smaller|faster|cleverer|cooler)-than-yours kind of thing, right? > Robert RRS --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
