[rescue] Help w/ computer time??

Bill Bradford mrbill at mrbill.net
Wed Apr 24 14:31:54 CDT 2002


On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 03:28:55PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> > for i in `cat filename` ; do
> >   echo -n $i ' '
> >   echo $i | gawk '{print strftime("%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Z %Y", $1)}'
> > done
> I really hate to do this, but you're _really_ asking for it these days:
> That's such horrible inefficient and poorly designed code it almost made
> me puke no my keyboard!  (well not literally, but it's sure making me
> spew my thoughts through my keyboard and into this message! :-)

*SO*?  *IT WORKS*.  Who *cares* if it isnt efficient or beautiful or 
doesent meet the Greg Woods Coding Standard?  Its a FOUR LINE SCRIPT.

Greg, get a GRIP.  If you have to worry about a four-line quickie
script, you SERIOUSLY need a vacation.

Bill

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Bill Bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
Austin, TX



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