Re: New tool for textutils

[Antonio Diaz]

Hello again.

Jim Meyering wrote:
> Antonio Diaz <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Recently i needed a tool for removing from a text file the lines
>
> However, I'm not sure it's worthwhile to write such a program in C
> when it can be done so concisely e.g., with Perl (for N=100):

I agree it is perhaps not worth to have another program for such a task, 
but I think it should be not too dificult to add that functionality to 
the program "cut".

If you think it is a good idea but no one have the time to do it, I'll 
try to add the code to the program "cut" and send a patch.

> I readily admit that we can't expect everyone to use Perl,

I like much more "The software tools philosophy" than the "learn a new 
programming languaje for every task philosophy". And possibly many of 
the GNU users that aren't sysadmins agree with this.

The Perl motto is "There's more than one way to do it". Well, my way is 
not to use it. :) (Of course my way can't be appropiate for everybody).

Regards.
Antonio Diaz.