On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, John Ferlito wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 06:19:26PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > Here's some silly shell...
> >
> > $ grep bogomips /proc/cpuinfo | awk '{ print "+" $3 }' | tr -d '\n' | cut -c 2-
> > | bc
> > 6121.06
> >
> > 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! :-)
>
> Too easy. You just need to learn some more awk Mr Waugh :) You don't even need
> to fork at all.
>
> $ awk '{ if(/bogomips/){ SUM+=$3 } } END {print SUM}' /proc/cpuinfo
... on second thoughts. awk is better. I bow to your awk-lord-ness :)
I'd argue that this is no better than using perl, but awk _is_ expected to
be portable without installing extra... (perl is usually optional)
... but why didn't you answer the other questions?! :)
-- Jess.
(Everything with a grin :)
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