2009-03-26, 21:22(-04), Chet Ramey:
Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
Chet, how about an option to mapfile that strips leading and/or
trailing spaces?
Another useful option would be to remove newlines.
I'm disinclined to add one, since it's easy enough to use the
${line##[ ]} and
See this message? Fine. :)
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 05:59:14PM -0400, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
Chet, how about an option to mapfile that strips leading and/or
trailing spaces?
Another useful option would be to remove newlines.
It already has the latter:
-tRemove a trailing newline from
Chris,
I agree with you to use the right tool at the right time, and mapfile seems
not to be the right tool for my problem, but I will just give you some facts
of my observations:
using a fast tool like egrep just to find a simple string in my datafile
gives the following times:
time egrep 'pro'
On Fri, 27 Mar 2009, Lennart Schultz wrote:
Chris,
I agree with you to use the right tool at the right time, and mapfile seems
not to be the right tool for my problem, but I will just give you some facts
of my observations:
using a fast tool like egrep just to find a simple string in my
