> > I wonder- xargs seems like it could be written in awk and made to take up
> > less than a couple of hundred bytes- would you or anyone be interested in
> > taking up the challenge of making a teensy xargs-in-awk? --Tom
>
> A tiny bit of Perl is the extent of my computer language skills at this
> point, unfortunately.
Perl is just like awk only less so.
> A teensy xargs will be a nice thing to have in the regular distro. There is
> a version of xargs in Perl. I'm not sure how well a starting point that
> would provide to someone who knows what they are doing.
I bet it will be a great starting point.
Look at "man mawk" under tomsrtbt, it is a very well written thing with
all you will ever need to know to get this done!
-Tom
