On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 18:19, Jeff Waugh wrote:

> Your mission: To work out what it's doing, why you'd be stupid enough to
> want to do it, and then how to do it better. It has to be in shell, and it
> has to handle decimals! :-)

You're a bad, bad man. I have been known to waste days reducing such
expressions, but not today! Just one simplification to make it spawn 1
less process:

awk '{if(/bogomips/){ print "+" $3 }}' < /proc/cpuinfo | tr -d '\n' |
cut -c 2- | blah blah blah

James.

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