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

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