4 Aug
2023
4 Aug
'23
6:38 a.m.
On Thu, Aug 3, 2023 at 6:54 PM Clem Cole <clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
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Adding features and thinking less about what functionality was really
needed started to get lost [so now we have Gnu - but I digress].
And a Good Thing Too. I hate to think how many thousands of times in the
last few decades I have written "awk '{if (m < length) m = length} END
{print m}'" (and wondering for a moment if it's "length" or
"len") until
someone mentioned "wc -L" to me just the other day. Arrgh.